Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Congress' Watchdog Plan 'Scary'

[kpete]

Ginsburg: Congress' Watchdog Plan 'Scary'

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: May 2, 2006
Filed at 10:23 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that a Republican proposal in Congress to set up a watchdog over the federal courts is a ''really scary idea.''

Ginsburg told a gathering of the American Bar Association that lawyers should stick up for judges when they are criticized by congressional leaders.

''My sense now is that the judiciary is under assault in a way that I haven't seen before,'' she said.

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''It sounds to me very much like the Soviet Union was .... That's a really scary idea,'' said Ginsburg, who was put on the court by President Clinton and is one of its liberal members.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Ginsburg-Congress.html

[Arkansas Granny]

1. I would feel a lot better if Congress would return to

their traditional role of being the watchdog of the Executive Branch instead of the Judicial.

[Synnical]

2. Hmm, what did Specter say today

Oh, yeah . . . I thought the comment was rather odd, and this article reminded me of it.

This is from the Boston Globed regarding hearings to be held regarding Shrub's signing statements:

http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/05/03/hearing_vowed_on_bushs_powers/?page=2

Specter said that challenging Bush's contention that he can ignore laws written by Congress should be a matter of institutional pride for lawmakers. He also connected Bush's defiance of laws to several Supreme Court decisions in which the justices ruled that Congress had not done enough research to justify a law.

''We're undergoing a tsunami here with the flood coming from the executive branch on one side and the judicial branch on the other," Specter said. ''There may as well soon not be a Congress. . . . And I think that most members don't understand what's happening."

[tanyev]

3. Well if Specter says there may as well not be a Congress, and

Ginsburg says the judiciary is under assault like never before, I guess the only thing that leaves us with is a Decidership. Heaven help us.

[suffragette]

4. First, the "minders" were assigned to scientists at NOAA

to suppress global warming information. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/10/AR2006021001766_pf.html

Now, the federal courts.

Next, ????

This is just all so wrong.

:scared: