Wednesday, May 03, 2006

Sauce For The Goose?

I have a question about this story:

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said Tuesday that a Republican proposal in Congress to set up a watchdog over the federal courts is a "really scary idea."

Ginsburg told a gathering of the American Bar Association that lawyers should stick up for judges when they are criticized by congressional leaders.

"My sense now is that the judiciary is under assault in a way that I haven't seen before," she said.

Is she referring to the endless left-wing villification/recusal campaign against her colleague Justice Scalia? Or, rather, shouldn't she be, if she wants this concern of hers to be taken seriously?

OTOH, given that she compared inter-Branch checks & balances applied to the Judiciary to "like the Soviet Union was," maybe credibility is a lost cause after all.

Go back to sleep, Justice Buzzy. That's how you can best serve the country, in lieu of retiring and getting your extremist ass off Olympus.