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Skriven 2007-01-18 18:00:57 av Wesley Struebing (13773.babylon5)
     Kommentar till en text av rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5.moderated
Ärende: Re: Shades of "12 Angry Men (1957)"
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On Thu, 18 Jan 2007 07:24:47 GMT, "Vorlonagent"
<nojtspam@otfresno.com> wrote:

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>"Wesley Struebing" <strueb@carpedementem.org> wrote in message 
>news:dgitq2pii4sh7il6uofvh82j2o7f0d1nub@4ax.com...
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>>>I hear the mittens and snowshovel markets are way up down in Hades...  :-D
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>> Here's another one to chill you more...
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>> http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16668110/
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>> Can we do more than just impeach the AG's character?
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>Nothing here is an impeachable offense.
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>AG's just complaining about judges that let ideology guide their rulings.

And what the HELL is AG doing?  (sorry, this is a sore point with me)

Don't be so ingenuous, sir.
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>He's overreaching by suggesting judges should defer Congress or the Prez. 
>The Judiciary is an equal branch of government.  Asking the Judiciary, even 
>a court inferior to the US Supreme Court, to take a back seat is a 
>non-starter.  It's almost as bad as the NJ State Supreme Court demanding 
>that NJ's legislature legalize gay marriage.  The difference is Gonzalez' 
>remarks carry no true command tense to them (he is not ordering judges to 
>butt out, he's just complaining)
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>Nothing particularly chilling here, however.  It's pretty garden-variety 
>stuff.  Gonzalez doesn't break and new ground or say anything that 
>provocative.  If he attempted to use the powers granted his office to 
>*force* judges to defer or if his remarks could reasonably be considered a 
>veiled threat...that's worth the descriptor "chilling".  I don't see either.
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>He's just blowing off steam.

Except he's &trying* to get it codified.

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