Hangin' them judges

The right wing continues to make noise about punishing judges who didn't do what they wanted in the Terri Schiavo case, abortion, school prayer and who knows what else.

Tom DeLay -- who may end up in front a judge himself sometime soon -- is leading the charge. What does it mean for Congress to "reassert its constitutional authority over the courts?"

The rhetoric is heating up. "Mass impeachment." for example, is pretty hot.

Hard to tell where our old pal F. James Senbrenner, Wisconsinite who chairs the House Judiciary Committee, stands. Here's what his staffer had to say:

In an interview, Jeff Lungren, a spokesman for Representative F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., Republican of Wisconsin and chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said the panel was likely in some way to take up the issue of how the federal judges handled Ms. Schiavo's case.

But Mr. Lungren said Mr. DeLay had not requested a hearing and the committee had not decided on a course of action. "There does seem to be this misunderstanding out there that our system was created with a completely independent judiciary," he said. Read NY Times story.