Here’s a bit of a warning to the anti-judicial extremists :

Not to be outdone, lawyer-author Edwin Vieira told the gathering that Kennedy should be impeached because his philosophy, evidenced in his opinion striking down an anti-sodomy statute, “upholds Marxist, Leninist, satanic principles drawn from foreign law.”

Ominously, Vieira continued by saying his “bottom line” for dealing with the Supreme Court comes from Joseph Stalin. “He had a slogan, and it worked very well for him, whenever he ran into difficulty: ‘no man, no problem,’ ” Vieira said.
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A judge in Atlanta and the husband and mother of a judge in Chicago were murdered in recent weeks. After federal courts spurned a request from Congress to revisit the Terri Schiavo case, House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) said that “the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior.” Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) mused about how a perception that judges are making political decisions could lead people to “engage in violence.”

What goes around…

senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, after vowing last fall to stop Democrats from blocking the most conservative of President Bush’s judicial nominees, will appear in a telecast later this month with leaders of social conservative groups.

According to a flier for the Louisville, Ky., event, it will focus on how judicial filibusters are being used “against people of faith.” The telecast is being organized by the Family Research Council, which sponsored a similar event last year opposing gay marriage. Frist’s staff said he will probably record his message for the telecast.

…eventually comes around.

McCarthy: (Mr. Chairman) …in view of Mr. Welch’s request that the information be given once we know of anyone who might be performing any work for the Communist Party, I think we should tell him that he has in his law firm a young man named Fisher whom he recommended, incidentally, to do the work on this Committee, who has been, for a number of years, a member of an organization which is named, oh, years and years ago, as the legal bulwark of the Communist Party, an organization which always springs to the defense of anyone who dares to expose Communists.
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Welch: Senator McCarthy, I did not know, Senator — Senator, sometimes you say may I have your attention –

McCarthy: I’m listening….

Welch: May I have your attention?

McCarthy: I can listen with one ear and talk with –.

Welch: No, this time, sir, I want you to listen with both. Senator McCarthy, I think until this moment –

McCarthy: — Good. Just a minute. Jim, Jim, will you get the news story to the effect that this man belongs to the — to this Communist front organization….

Welch: I will tell you that he belonged to it.

McCarthy: Jim, will you get the citation, one of the citations showing that this was the legal arm of the Communist Party, and the length of time that he belonged, and the fact that he was recommended by Mr. Welch. I think that should be in the record….

Welch: Senator, you won’t need anything in the record when I finish telling you this. Until this moment, Senator, I think I never really gauged your cruelty, or your recklessness. Fred Fisher is a young man who went to the Harvard Law School and came into my firm and is starting what looks to be a brilliant career with us….Little did I dream you could be so reckless and so cruel as to do an injury to that lad. It is, I regret to say, equally true that I fear he shall always bear a scar needlessly inflicted by you. If it were in my power to forgive you for your reckless cruelty, I would do so. I like to think I’m a gentle man, but your forgiveness will have to come from someone other than me.

McCarthy: Mr. Chairman, may I say that Mr. Welch talks about this being cruel and reckless. He was just baiting. He has been baiting Mr. Cohn here for hours, requesting that Mr. Cohn before sundown get out of any department of the government anyone who is serving the Communist cause. Now, I just give this man’s record and I want to say, Mr. Welch, that it had been labeled long before he became a member, as early as 1944 –

Welch: Senator, may we not drop this? We know he belonged to the Lawyers’ Guild.

McCarthy: Let me finish….

Welch: And Mr. Cohn nods his head at me. I did you, I think, no personal injury, Mr. Cohn?

Cohn: No, sir.

Welch: I meant to do you no personal injury.

Cohn: No, sir.

Welch: And if I did, I beg your pardon. Let us not assassinate this lad further, Senator.

McCarthy: Let’s, let’s –

Welch: You’ve done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?

Regardless of how far this paranoid crusade goes, in the end history is rarely kind to witch-hunters. The only question now is how many are going to be burned at the stake before the American people wake up and realize that the people holding the torches are lunatics.