Re: Bedtime for Democracy
Actually, both Ashcroft and his successor have demonstrated a drooling eagerness to trample the law and the Constitution underfoot in order to do the bidding of Bush, who never saw a sentence that couldn't wear him out before he read through to the end of it.
Individuals are appointed to the cabinet and insist upon being called "Judge." The entire administration is bent on being activist judges and forcing the courts to be activist about Bush policies.
Under the Orwellian dangerphrase "activist judiciary," they have worked on a daily basis to force the courts to act outside of precedent and codified law to overturn valid State laws and Supreme Court cases upholding various forms of the right to privacy in sex, marriage, and reproduction-- and now in the realm of "life."
Even the worst possible motives of the parties involved cannot justify the wreckage Bush has made of the doctrines of Separation of Powers and Preemption, and States' Rights. Remember that the "conservatives" were originally against "big government." Certainly you hear very little of that nowadays.
To Bush, the courts are simply bureaus which stamp approval on his weird and unnatural plans to collapse the government into one Branch, and all of the military and intelligence organizations run out of the Oval Office. That, my friend, is what should make you angry, not the decision by one State, through its legally-endowed authorities, to let somebody die sooner.
If Bush succeeds, we're all in deep trouble.
