MrDave
April 22nd, 2005, 12:12pm
Check this out:
An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times features two of the nation's most influential evangelical leaders, at a private conference with supporters, laying out strategies to rein in judges, such as stripping funding from their courts in an effort to hinder their work.
"There's more than one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to take a black robe off the bench," said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, according to an audiotape of a March 17 session. The tape was provided to The Times by the advocacy group Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
DeLay has spoken generally about one of the ideas the leaders discussed in greater detail: using legislative tactics to withhold money from courts.
"We set up the courts. We can unset the courts. We have the power of the purse," DeLay said at an April 13 question-and-answer session with reporters.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-strategy22apr22,0,4502787.story?coll=la-home-nation
This is a real effort to purge the Judiciary of its power. This stratagy would affect the effectiveness of the courts to handle their loads - thereby affecting many many cases that these religious nuts couldn't give a squat about - but in their quest for power they are more than willing to step all over anyone in their way.
"Folks, I am telling you all that it is going to be the mother of all battles," Dobson predicted at the March 17 meeting. "And it's right around the corner. I mean, Justice Rehnquist could resign at any time, and the other side is mobilized to the teeth."
I urge you to write your Reps. in the House - many on sitting on the fence about DeLay and are waiting to see what type of reaction he provokes from the public.
This is really disturbing stuff. :worry:
An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times features two of the nation's most influential evangelical leaders, at a private conference with supporters, laying out strategies to rein in judges, such as stripping funding from their courts in an effort to hinder their work.
"There's more than one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to take a black robe off the bench," said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, according to an audiotape of a March 17 session. The tape was provided to The Times by the advocacy group Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
DeLay has spoken generally about one of the ideas the leaders discussed in greater detail: using legislative tactics to withhold money from courts.
"We set up the courts. We can unset the courts. We have the power of the purse," DeLay said at an April 13 question-and-answer session with reporters.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-strategy22apr22,0,4502787.story?coll=la-home-nation
This is a real effort to purge the Judiciary of its power. This stratagy would affect the effectiveness of the courts to handle their loads - thereby affecting many many cases that these religious nuts couldn't give a squat about - but in their quest for power they are more than willing to step all over anyone in their way.
"Folks, I am telling you all that it is going to be the mother of all battles," Dobson predicted at the March 17 meeting. "And it's right around the corner. I mean, Justice Rehnquist could resign at any time, and the other side is mobilized to the teeth."
I urge you to write your Reps. in the House - many on sitting on the fence about DeLay and are waiting to see what type of reaction he provokes from the public.
This is really disturbing stuff. :worry: