Raccoon correspondent K. McLellan writes in:
OK, so I just saw this in the Washington Post:
"Sen. John Cornyn said yesterday that recent examples of courthouse violence may be linked to public anger over judges who make politically charged decisions without being held accountable.
"In a Senate floor speech in which he sharply criticized a recent Supreme Court ruling on the death penalty, Cornyn (R-Tex.) -- a former Texas Supreme Court justice and member of the Judiciary Committee -- said Americans are growing increasingly frustrated by what he describes as activist jurists.
"'It causes a lot of people, including me, great distress to see judges use the authority that they have been given to make raw political or ideological decisions," he said. Sometimes, he said, "the Supreme Court has taken on this role as a policymaker rather than an enforcer of political decisions made by elected representatives of the people.'"
OK, so first of all, very obviously, this is a totally offensive way to excuse acts of violence against judges.
Secondly, though-- on what PLANET is the role of the judiciary branch of government to be the "enforcer of political decisions made by elected representatives of the people"??? For WHAT FUCKING REASON do we have THREE FUCKING BRANCHES OF GOVERNMENT except to provide motherfucking CHECKS AND FUCKING BALANCES???
This is a government that bases its arguments on the assumption that the people they are courting don't fucking understand how our fucking government is fucking supposed to fucking work!!! Their power base apparently consists of people who couldn't fucking pass a junior-high-level civics class!!
I am filled with rage.
Love,
K.
