[Chi-townChief]

We've come to expect this kind of hypocrisy from our Senator Dickhead but Judge Lefkow trading on her husband's and mother's deaths for a few cheap political points is totally sickening.

[Chi-townChief]

CHICAGOLAND PING

[pissant]

What a bunch of worthless tripe.

[sawdust]

Tough darts! Judicial tyranny has made this bed, now judges have to sleep in it.

[sgtbono2002]

Maybe she should look into the reasons for Judges being criticised.

[StonyBurk]

A district Judge playing "what if" games to the mere politicians of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Calling
for what we are repeatedly told ought not be acceptable in any Court of law( a demand for protection /judicial action without any proof of harm done) Shocking.A woman
in the stage of Grief she clearly is passing through ought
be accomodated--but her comments taken in light of her affliction-- it would be foolish to act upon her request
for it is not based in judicious reality.

[schaketo]

It seems to me that even though we cannot prove a cause-and-effect relationship between rhetorical attacks on judges in general and violent acts of vengeance

Why does the "writer" not pick on this statement and shred her?

[OldFriend]

Her first comments were remembering something slick willie said to her. So it was clear where this was going.

The fact that the crazy who murdered her family had nothing at all to do with the supremicst in jail who threatened her didn't stop her from her ludicrous complaint.

It's a wonder she didn't blame Mark Levin outright for daring to write his book.

Or Rush Limbaugh for daring to criticize some in the judiciary.

[Tax Government]

Might we still continue to remark that the judiciary is self-serving, power-hungry, corrupt, out-of-line, out-of-step with the constitution, flatulent and incompetent, after shutting down any anti-judicial rhetoric?

[freepatriot32]

Libertarian ping.To be added or removed from my ping list freepmail me or post a message here

[Nyboe]

Judges don't deserve any security at all, if they do what they are suppose to do, and just apply the law, they have nothing to fear, but if they continue to insist on behaving like our masters and continue to create laws that are contrary to the opinions of the majority of the American people then expect Judges to be the target of ever increasing levels of violence.

[sharkhawk]

Yet, no word about the left calling Bush nominees extremists who will take away basic rights.

[Noachian]

"But I believe that many public officials, both elected and otherwise, have made verbal attacks on the federal judiciary which we should not tolerate."

More liberal hog slop.

Liberals will continue to protect their only means of passing laws, contrary to the will of the people, since they've lost everything but the judiciary.

That a sitting judge, who is sworn to protect the Constitution, will openly suggest that we do away with the First Amendment as it pertains to the judicial branch of government shows more than arrogance. It brings into question Judge Lefkow's ability to do her job.

That Senator Durbin agrees with her brings into question his own ability to protect and defend the people's rights to freedom of speech.

Here we see two branches of government agreeing on silencing any rhetoric against the abuses of judicial power. Will Senator Durbin suggest that all "harsh rhetoric" against members of Congress be silenced as well?

A lack of respect for constitutional rights amongst the judiciary is wide spread and growing. It's for this very reason that federal judges are being held up to examination by the public, and that sort of examination makes for a healthy political system. Obviously Judge Lefkow and Senator Durbin would prefer a more dictatorial type of political system.

[joebuck]

"Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), a member of the panel. "But I believe that many public officials, both elected and otherwise, have made verbal attacks on the federal judiciary which we should not tolerate."

The hypocricy here is mind numbing. Durbin and his collegues have been relentlessly excoriating Bush's judicial nominees for months if not years. Most of the rhetoric directed at these nominees is much worse than the examples cited in the article.

[Rockingham]

This goofball has squandered the sympathy that I formerly had for her loss and has called into question her wisdom and integrity as a judge. The true bane of the judiciary is not harsh criticism but bad judges, the abuse of power by judges, and the considerable defects of our legal system.

[Bernard]

"I come to you with a plea that you who have the power, continue to make judicial protection a priority as is reflected in the recent passage of the HR 1268, which includes $12 million to the Marshals Service for increased security for federal judges, specifically for home intrusion detection systems...

And after the tragedy that befell her family, she ends with a special interest request/endorsement for the federal government to spend more money.

It occurs to me that I was in her line of work, and married to a lawyer, and living in the city of Chicago, I would probably have had an alarm system installed already.