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Originally posted by: kg_veteran
If you want to talk about the "verbal assault" by DeLay, Frist and others (whatever that is), then we can talk about that, but it'd be nice for you to provide some specifics about their verbal assault so that I can respond.
As for judges "merely performing their duty," you are wrong. Their duty is to interpret the law, not make it.
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Talking about the judges in the Schiavo case, DeLay issued a statement asserting that "the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior." He later said that he wants to "look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president." [Washington Post 4/2/05]
"I am in favor of impeachment," said Tom Coburn’s chief of staff, suggesting "mass impeachment" might be needed. [NYT 4/8/05]
Pat Robertson called federal judges a worse threat to American democracy than “bearded terrorists who fly into buildings,” while James Dobson of Focus on the Family compared jurists to the Ku Klux Klan.
Look up the Constitution Restoration Act of 2005 intorduced by Shelby of Alabama. It was a clear attack on an independent judiciary.
How about Roy Moore and the "Confronting the Judicial War on Faith" events?
The judges duty is to determine the correct application of law as it applies to the case in front of it. Without a case, they don't issue opinions. The opinions are derived from the laws on the books. Claims of judges "mak[ing] law" are merely attempts to cloak disagreement with their findings.