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Article: Boundless fury at the judiciary; Republicans' wrongheaded campaign against the courts.(OPED)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 6, 2005
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Byline: Nat Hentoff, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
House Majority Leader Tom DeLay is part of an angry chorus of Republican critics campaigning against the federal judiciary. These judges, says Mr. DeLay, serve as long as they maintain "good behavior," but "we want to define what good behavior means." He would like the House Judiciary Committee to investigate how well certain judges are behaving.
Until now, as conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer points out, this condition for lifetime tenure has meant "honesty and propriety." But what Mr. DeLay and his allies apparently had in mind by "good behavior" is whether judges' constitutional opinions match ...