The BlackRobe JackBoots seriously resent being reminded that they, too, are subject to authority.
Actually, Sensenbrenner is the JackBoot here.
We appoint Judges to JUDGE, and mandatory minimums are a ridiculous exercise of power grabbing. The Judge is the one trusted to decided the Facts of the case, and the circumstances of each decision.
Get Tough On Crime Rejects in the Congress deciding those issues from outside the courtroom are doing so to avoid tackling the real issues that might cause controversy.
""This is getting to be a serious and disturbing pattern," said Joe Shoemaker, spokesman for Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.). "It's in effect saying to the judiciary, 'Be careful how you rule, because we're going to be watching you every minute of every day.'"
A classic socialist response to justice from a man who represents an enemy to freedom and to all Americans everywhere.
"The whole point of judges appointed for life is to free them from threats of retribution." i.e. - free them from any accountability to the people they are to serve and protect.
"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." -- C.S. Lewis
Tempest in a teapot. F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. is a great conservative and congressman, we could use about 100 more like him.
Sensenbrenner ping!
Umm....too late!