November 17, 2004

Yet More Repubilcans Who Have Little Interest in the Rule of Law

Changing the rule is not a sign that lawmakers think DeLay will be indicted, Cantor said, but rather a public rebuke of an investigation they feel is wholly unwarranted.

So the House Republican leadership is now deciding who and what will be investigated? Great. I admire Eric Cantor's (R-VA) political skills, but pardon me if I don't blindly trust him and Tom Delay to follow the law. We have a court system for a reason, and one of those reasons is to serve as a check on abuses by political figures. Why should politicians get to decide which investigations are legitimate? The rest of us don't get that right.

Posted by armand at November 17, 2004 08:34 AM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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"We have a court system for a reason, and one of those reasons is to serve as a check on abuses by political figures. Why should politicians get to decide which investigations are legitimate?"

You have to ask? Because when courts decide which investigations are legitimate, when they attempt to check abuses by political figures, they are excoriated as "Dangerous and constitutionally questionable judicial action."

Oh wait, you don't have to ask -- you already know.

Posted by: joshua at November 17, 2004 04:27 PM | PERMALINK
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