The complete politicization of the justice system - completely of a piece with the methods and rationale of men like Rove and DeLay - is a real threat to the impartiality of American justice, and the important appearance of impartiality. -AS
Did he just say that? Of course, an alternative and compelling view is that they simply did what Ronald Reagan would have wanted them to do, just Texas style (you know, bigger and betterer).
At CPAC in January, 2003, Daly won the prestigious Ronald Reagan Award from American Conservative Union (ACU). When presenting the award, David Keene, president of ACU called Daly "the new Phyllis Schlafly" saying, "Kay Daly more than exemplifies the relentless spirit of a selfless conservative. Kay is an integral part of the grassroots effort in supporting President Bush's judicial nominees by overseeing the Coalition for a Fair Judiciary
Why the "Ronald Reagan" prize? Well, it was Reagan who started the Devloution of the Judiciary, right?
Nonetheless, Reagan had an ambitious agenda for legal reform and put into place one of the most rigorous processes for selecting federal judges.Judges aren't exactly prosecutors, but I think Rove might consider both "fair game". Read on and find the possible inspiration that culminated in GOP abuse of power, quite possibly, under Karl, George W., and Harriet, et. al. (My nose tells me, at these early sniffs, that Gonzales wasn't pulling the strings. At best, he was a trigger man.). [edit: BlondeSense calls her "BFF Harriet" - ha!]
"No administration has thought longer and more deeply about law since that of FDR, and we have thought more deeply than that administration." That was no immodest boast on the part of Terry Eastland, the Justice Department's director of public affairs. Why? In retrospect, it appears the result of a combination of six factors.
link: Bootstrapping Andrew Sullivan
