From ABC News, 4/8/05:
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=653307
ABC News
Bush Declines to Endorse DeLay's Comments
Bush Says He Supports 'Independent Judiciary,' Declines to Endorse
DeLay's Criticism of Judges
ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE Apr 8, 2005 --
President Bush on Friday said he supports "an independent judiciary"
and declined to endorse comments by House Majority Tom DeLay that were
critical of judges.
"I believe in proper checks and balances," Bush said.
The president, speaking with reporters as he flew to Texas from Rome,
where he attended the funeral of Pope John Paul II, was reacting to
statements made after the death of Terri Schiavo.
DeLay, R-Texas, suggested an impeachment case could made against
judges who rebuffed Congress' will in the Schiavo case.
As the severely brain-damaged Florida woman faded, Congress passed a
law allowing federal courts to review the decisions of state judges
who turned down her parents' efforts to resume her feeding.
But federal judges all the way up to the Supreme Court held up those
decisions.
"The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for
their behavior," DeLay said when Schiavo died.
Few other Republicans have gone that far in criticizing an independent
branch of government.
But Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, said he wondered if frustration against
perceived political decisions by judges "builds up and builds up to
the point where some people engage in violence, certainly without any
justification."
Democrats have called the comments tantamount to inciting violence
against judges.
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