Tuesday, March 14, 2006

Retired Supreme Court judge issues dire warning!

 

Attacks on judiciary predicate ‘dictatorship.’

 

Sandra Day O'Connor, a Republican-appointed judge who retired last month after 24 years on the supreme court, has said the US is in danger of edging towards dictatorship if the party's rightwingers continue to attack the judiciary.

In a strongly worded speech at Georgetown University, reported by National Public Radio and the Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Ms O'Connor took aim at Republican leaders whose repeated denunciations of the courts for alleged liberal bias could, she said, be contributing to a climate of violence against judges.

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http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0313-03.htm

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