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Originally Posted by Rich
...our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government, and the envy of the world."
Ted Olson, Solicitor General under Bush Jr.
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Correct. And that is the
very reason why a verbal assault on them (or even an extremely vague "death threat" [
snicker 
that employed the language "take a black* a robe down from the bench"]) is understood by both sides to be just cheerleading and chest-beating.
And then it gets wrapped up in indecipherable "civics" rhetoric, and dispensed with using packing material such as this:
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Originally Posted by Rich
...If a judge?s decisions are corrupt or tainted, there are lawful recourses (prosecution or impeachment); but congressional interrogations of life-tenured judges, presumably under oath, as to why a particular decision was rendered, would constitute interference with ? and intimidation of ? the judicial process.
Ted Olson, Solicitor General under Bush Jr.
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What matters is that it got SAID, and some number of still rescuably-rational people sitting on the fence got won over to the Dark Side.
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*(Don't miss that beat.)