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Justice Sandra Day O Connor at Georgetown University March 10 2006 Political pressure put on Judiciary It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship.... But we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings. Attacks on the Judiciary by some Republican Leaders pose a direct threat to our Constitutional Freedoms I am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning we must be ever- vigilant against those that would STRONG ARM the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. ...interference with an independent judiciary is what allows a dictatorship to flourish in countries formerly subjected in to communist rule.
…the founding Fathers knew statutes and Constitutions don't protect judicial independence ...People do With out an independent judiciary to protect individual rights from the other branches of government those rights and privileges would amount to nothing
67% feel the country is going in the wrong way 60% say the Bush is doing a lousy job as president http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5255712 Bush : You have to believe in what your doing, see? You have to believe uh in certain principles and beliefs. And you can't let public opinion polls and focus groups uh uh onecause you to abandon what you believe and become the reason for making decisions.
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