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Ted Olson Criticizes GOP Leaders For 'Heated Rhetoric' About Judges
Drudge ^ | 4/21/05 | Drudge

Posted on 04/21/2005 9:34:44 AM PDT by joesbucks

Ted Olson Criticizes GOP Leaders For 'Heated Rhetoric' About Judges Thu Apr 21 2005 09:57:54 ET

Former solicitor general Theodore Olson writes in the WALL STREET JOURNAL on Thursday: "A prominent member of the Senate leadership recently described a Supreme Court justice as 'a disgrace.' An equally prominent member of the leadership of the House of Representatives on the other side of the political aisle has characterized another justice's approach to adjudication as 'incredibly outrageous.'

These excoriations follow other examples of personalized attacks on members of the judiciary by senior political figures. So it is time to take a deep breath, step back, and inject a little perspective into the recent heated rhetoric about judges and the courts. We might start by getting a firm grip on the reality that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government, and the envy of the world. ... We expect dignity, wisdom, decency, civility, integrity and restraint from our judges. It is time to exercise those same characteristics in our dealings with, and commentary on, those same judges -- from their appointment and confirmation, to their decision-making once they take office."

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1 posted on 04/21/2005 9:34:49 AM PDT by joesbucks
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To: Torie

another leftwing RINO!

< / sarcasm>


2 posted on 04/21/2005 9:36:29 AM PDT by ambrose (....)
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To: joesbucks

Ted just found out he's NOT on the SC short list..


3 posted on 04/21/2005 9:36:31 AM PDT by ken5050 (The Dem party is as dead as the NHL)
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To: joesbucks

So 'heated rhetoric' should be the sole domain of Democrats?


4 posted on 04/21/2005 9:37:31 AM PDT by Spok
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To: joesbucks

I bet you loved reading this.


5 posted on 04/21/2005 9:37:56 AM PDT by RushCrush (Blind Rushbot- Waiting for Rush to tell me what to have for lunch today.)
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To: joesbucks
i would expect any practicing attorney who has cases that are being tried in front of these flathead judges to 'criticize their critics'.

i'm sure any private comments might be somewhat different

6 posted on 04/21/2005 9:37:59 AM PDT by kingattax
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To: ken5050
This is just great...

/sarc

7 posted on 04/21/2005 9:38:33 AM PDT by Dog
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To: joesbucks

We should start calling the GOP the Sysiphus Party. The Dems can be the Syphillus Party. Sysiphus vs. Syphillus.


8 posted on 04/21/2005 9:39:56 AM PDT by Huck (One day the lion will lay down with the lamb; Until that day comes, I want America to be the lion.)
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To: joesbucks

Most respected branch of our Government? ROFL

Why not critisize the rhetoric against the nominated Justices by the DEMOCRATS! No, let's critisize those telling the truth.

Well I will tell him this. If Republicans don't stop this activist Judiciary, if they don't approve the President's nominations, the Republican Party is going to cease to exist as anything but an aberration in our history.


9 posted on 04/21/2005 9:40:21 AM PDT by Soul Seeker
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To: joesbucks
Sorry Ted, I love ya, but how did you miss the insults, threats, and complete disrespect to the ct after 2000?

Or how about US Senate minority leader saying justice Thomas was an "embarrassment", and inferred stupidity for
"poorly written" opinions?

Where were your complaints for all these years?

Could it be that you were afraid too look to partisan to the NY elite media?
10 posted on 04/21/2005 9:42:51 AM PDT by roses of sharon
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To: joesbucks
We might start by getting a firm grip on the reality that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government

That's not saying much.
11 posted on 04/21/2005 9:43:08 AM PDT by mikeus_maximus
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To: joesbucks
our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government

Baloney, Americans are sick to death of the daggone courts. Wan't me to tell you some lawyer jokes? Ted Olsen is a lawyer, so maybe he doesn't like the idea that we should hold activist judges accountable. "Men in Black", read it, Ted.
12 posted on 04/21/2005 9:43:26 AM PDT by advance_copy (Stand for life, or nothing at all)
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To: Dog

I'm sure this is not all Ted had to say. I believe he does not stand for SCOTUS using 'international law' as a standard while ruling on the constitutionality of any law before them.


13 posted on 04/21/2005 9:44:48 AM PDT by meema
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To: joesbucks

"First thing we do is kill all the lawyers" - W. S.


14 posted on 04/21/2005 9:45:34 AM PDT by hang 'em (If you won't join they kill you. If you leave they kill you. "Just another religion" or a DISEASE?)
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To: joesbucks
We might start by getting a firm grip on the reality that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government

Now THAT is damning with faint praise...

15 posted on 04/21/2005 9:46:28 AM PDT by dirtboy (Drooling moron since 1998...)
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To: joesbucks

Yeah this is bunk. The GOP is following in a long tradition of free speech on thought on the subject. Welcome to America, Ted. The judiciary is the government. We the people have every right to criticize them and to expect checks and balances on their power.


16 posted on 04/21/2005 9:50:48 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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To: joesbucks
We expect dignity, wisdom, decency, civility, integrity and restraint from our judges.

Ted, I also demand that they follow United States laws as written and pay no attention to the laws and customs of other countries in their decisions.

17 posted on 04/21/2005 9:54:35 AM PDT by RJL
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To: joesbucks
Well, he is wrong, the Democrats Judges are mostly a bunch of Communist America haters who rule based on whims, fetishes and international law, everything except the Constitution and the Federalist Papers.
That said, I have to cut Ted a break only because his wife was on the phone to him on 9-11-01 as her plane hit the Pentagon. For that alone I give him one free pass for stupid statements.
18 posted on 04/21/2005 9:55:47 AM PDT by pwatson
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To: joesbucks
We expect dignity, wisdom, decency, civility, integrity and restraint from our judges. 0 for 6.
19 posted on 04/21/2005 9:55:52 AM PDT by Fam4Bush (More things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of..........A.L. Tennyson)
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To: advance_copy

Exactly. Besides, they are not ENTITLED to respect. It must be earned. And if anything, they are the branch MOST in need of criticism because they really have more ability to usurp power than the others do. Ted is just suffering from a momentary human failing: I am the one with the wisest of answers. I am the only reasonable one. I alone can solve this..... He's trying to have it both ways by criticizing and condemning criticism of the judiciary all at the same time. It's really silly and rather smug.


20 posted on 04/21/2005 9:56:10 AM PDT by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Legislatures are so outdated. If you want real political victory, take your issue to court.)
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