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Date: Mar 19, 2006 1:12 PM
Subject: [NotMyPresident] FW: Former Justice O'Connor Warns of Beginnings of Dictatorship in US
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This is coming from a former US Supreme Court Justice, one who wasn't known
as a liberal. That is scary. Gabriell
Feminist.org: Your daily source for the feminist perspective
o=
n national and global events.
Former Justice O'Connor Warns of Beginnings of Dictatorship
in=
US=20
Feminist Daily News Wire
March 16, 2006
At a speech at Georgetown University, former Supreme Court
Jus=
tice Sandra Day O'Connor warned that the current levels of interference
with=
and attacks on the nation's independent judiciary are the first steps towar=
ds dictatorship. Paraphrasing O'Connor, Nina Totenberg of NPR said, "It
take=
s a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship . but we
sh=
ould avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings." Without naming him,
O'C=
onnor criticized former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) for his
remar=
ks following the Eleventh Circuit Court's decision in the Terri Shiavo
case,=
when he said, "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answe=
r for their behavior," according to USA Today.
O'Connor also noted that while death threats against members
o=
f the judiciary are increasing, it "doesn't help" when a senior senator
sugg=
ests there "may be a connection between violence against judges and
decision=
s that the senator disagrees with," according to NPR. O'Connor reminded
the=20=
audience of the federal judge who was killed in Atlanta and family of the
fe=
deral judge in Chicago who were also murdered. At the time, Senator John
Cor=
nyn (R-TX) said, "I don't know if there is a cause and effect connection,
bu=
t we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country
.=
. . And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perceptio=
n in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political
dec=
isions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up to the point
w=
here some people engage in violence," according to the Guardian.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now the only
woman=20=
on the Court, said recently that she and O'Connor have received death
threat=
s from what Ginsburg called the "irrational fringe" of society, according
to=
CNN. Right-wing commentator Ann Coulter joked earlier this month in a speec=
h to Philander Smith College that Justice Stevens, a liberal member of the
S=
upreme Court, should be poisoned, AP reports. The climate has grown so
hosti=
le that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that three-quarters of the
2,=
200 federal judges have requested the government-paid home security
systems=20=
that Congress approved last year, according to the Associated Press.
Media Resources:NPR 3/10/06; The Guardian 3/13/06; CNN
3/15/06=
; Associated Press 3/15/06, 1/27/06; USA Today 4/12/05
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as a liberal. That is scary. Gabriell
Feminist.org: Your daily source for the feminist perspective
o=
n national and global events.
Former Justice O'Connor Warns of Beginnings of Dictatorship
in=
US=20
Feminist Daily News Wire
March 16, 2006
At a speech at Georgetown University, former Supreme Court
Jus=
tice Sandra Day O'Connor warned that the current levels of interference
with=
and attacks on the nation's independent judiciary are the first steps towar=
ds dictatorship. Paraphrasing O'Connor, Nina Totenberg of NPR said, "It
take=
s a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship . but we
sh=
ould avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings." Without naming him,
O'C=
onnor criticized former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX) for his
remar=
ks following the Eleventh Circuit Court's decision in the Terri Shiavo
case,=
when he said, "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answe=
r for their behavior," according to USA Today.
O'Connor also noted that while death threats against members
o=
f the judiciary are increasing, it "doesn't help" when a senior senator
sugg=
ests there "may be a connection between violence against judges and
decision=
s that the senator disagrees with," according to NPR. O'Connor reminded
the=20=
audience of the federal judge who was killed in Atlanta and family of the
fe=
deral judge in Chicago who were also murdered. At the time, Senator John
Cor=
nyn (R-TX) said, "I don't know if there is a cause and effect connection,
bu=
t we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country
.=
. . And I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perceptio=
n in some quarters, on some occasions, where judges are making political
dec=
isions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up to the point
w=
here some people engage in violence," according to the Guardian.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, now the only
woman=20=
on the Court, said recently that she and O'Connor have received death
threat=
s from what Ginsburg called the "irrational fringe" of society, according
to=
CNN. Right-wing commentator Ann Coulter joked earlier this month in a speec=
h to Philander Smith College that Justice Stevens, a liberal member of the
S=
upreme Court, should be poisoned, AP reports. The climate has grown so
hosti=
le that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that three-quarters of the
2,=
200 federal judges have requested the government-paid home security
systems=20=
that Congress approved last year, according to the Associated Press.
Media Resources:NPR 3/10/06; The Guardian 3/13/06; CNN
3/15/06=
; Associated Press 3/15/06, 1/27/06; USA Today 4/12/05
. Instead of unsubscribing, try switching to Daily Digest.
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From: "Bob Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bob Dunfey" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 09:01:24 -0500
Subject: Re: Former Justice O'Connor Warns of Beginnings of Dictatorship in US - "lack of sunshine"
MessageRuth Bader Ginsberg calls it "irrational fringe of society". George Bush calls it his "base".
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From: Bob Dunfey
To: 'jeff garland' ; 'Bob Lyons'
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2006 6:41 AM
Subject: Former Justice O'Connor Warns of Beginnings of Dictatorship in US - "lack of sunshine"
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