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April 22, 2005
An inside look at the War on the Judiciary
An audio recording obtained by the Los Angeles Times features two of the nation's most influential evangelical leaders, at a private conference with supporters, laying out strategies to rein in judges, such as stripping funding from their courts in an effort to hinder their work.
The discussion took place during a Washington conference last month that included addresses by House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, who discussed efforts to bring a more conservative cast to the courts.
Weaken the court system by starving funding. And at the behest of fringe, extremist evangelicals. The Christian Mullahs.
"There's more than one way to skin a cat, and there's more than one way to take a black robe off the bench," said Tony Perkins, president of the conservative Family Research Council, according to an audiotape of a March 17 session. The tape was provided to The Times by the advocacy group Americans United for Separation of Church and State.
Perkins is an intregal part of Justice Sunday. Along with Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist, the rightwing extremists plan to spend their Sunday telling the American people that those who vote against Bush's judicial nominees hate the Baby Jesus.
And the other Christian Mullah involved in this underhanded and disgusting attempt to undermine our Constitution?
The leaders present at the March conference, including Perkins and James C. Dobson, founder of the influential group Focus on the Family, have been working with Frist to eliminate the filibuster for judicial nominations, a legislative tool that has allowed Senate Democrats to stall 10 of President Bush's nominations. Frist is scheduled to appear, via a taped statement, during a satellite broadcast to churches nationwide Sunday that the Family Research Council has organized to build support for the Bush nominees.
The March conference featuring Dobson and Perkins showed that the evangelical leaders, in addition to working to place conservative nominees on the bench, have been trying to find ways to remove certain judges.
Your Republican Congress is working closely with them:
Perkins said that he had attended a meeting with congressional leaders a week earlier where the strategy of stripping funding from certain courts was "prominently" discussed. "What they're thinking of is not only the fact of just making these courts go away and re-creating them the next day but also defunding them," Perkins said.
Today's GOP Congress: Wiping their asses with the United States Constitution.
These guys are ballsy, I'll give them that. It takes a lot of nerve to so blatantly work to tear down the fundamental precepts that our nation was founded on.
I've posted only small bits of that LA Times piece, incidentally. The whole thing is a must read. It's an inside baseball look at these men whose entire agenda is about forcing Americans to live their way. Their religion or the highway.
Posted by Carla at April 22, 2005 11:46 AM