Justice O'Connor warns of dictatorship (audio)

[Pharaoh]

Justice O'Connor Decries Republican Attacks on Courts

She told an audience at Georgetown University that Republican proposals, and their sometimes uncivil tone, pose a danger to the independence of the judiciary, and the freedoms of all Americans.

Transmission date: 03/10/06 NPR

http://informationclearinghouse.info/article12281.htm

[zbdent]

1. This from the 5th vote installing said dictator . . .

who also set up the courts to be so backwards by resigning . . .

[Demit]

2. Yup. Kinda takes away from her "courageous stance", doesn't it?

When she makes sure she is far enough away to be safe herself as she decries the situation. I put her in the same category as Colin Powell. They let us down when they could have stood up, and now still want what they say to count for something. Cowards, both.

[dzika]

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[MrTriumph]

4. Sandra Dull O'Connor seeks redemption- FORGET IT, SANDY!

Amazing she could say the courts can't make presidents. Was she asleep in Dec. 2000?

[Sperk]

5. To Justice O'Connor.....NO SH*T SHERLOCK! When she adds

an apology for forcing the Fascist Insaniac on us....I'll listen to her comments.

[saltpoint]

6. I agree with other posters here that Judge O'Connor ought to have

seen the pattern a long time ago with this administration.

She's toasted for her "moderate" views in some of the cases where she was the swing vote, but I've never felt she was much more than a Reagan-appointed conservative.

Just the same, I'd like for this remark she's made to get wider circulation in the media. Fat chance, I know, but it would assist in the rehabilitation of red voters so they could re-join the ranks of real citizens and be productive, critical thinkers in a functioning democracy.

[bleedingheart]

7. she left the bench....she let them gain more control...too late Sandra..