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DeLay Cites 'Men in Black' for Court Reform

 
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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:14 pm    Post subject: DeLay Cites 'Men in Black' for Court Reform Reply with quote

"House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is citing a controversial new book sharply critical of the Supreme Court's judicial activism as the basis for new Republican initiatives on court reform.

"As a guide to his views on the subject, DeLay has been urging reporters to read "Men in Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America," reports the Washington Post."

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http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2005/5/14/104708.shtml
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PostPosted: Sat May 14, 2005 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

An interview with with Mark Levin . . .

February 01, 2005, 8:02 a.m.
Men in Black
Mark R. Levin on the Court.

Q&A by Kathryn Jean Lopez

http://www.nationalreview.com/interrogatory/levin200502010802.asp

~snip~
"NRO: When you think dictatorial activist judge/"radical in a robe," who comes to mind first?

Levin: Justices are not imbued with greater wisdom, judgment, or compassion than any other citizen. Some justices have been senile, racist, and crooked. Some have been brilliant, honorable, and exceptional. There's no reason, even outside the constitutional framework, so much authority should be exercised by so few. Activist justices come in many stripes but, as a rule, they use their lifetime positions to impose by fiat that which should be decided through the democratic process. They don't believe they're bound by the Constitution's firewalls. Justices Stevens, O'Connor, Kennedy, Souter, Breyer, and Ginsburg are activists."
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