No mercy in Ashcroft's brand of justice

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

That's true unless they are Bush buddies like Kenneth Lay.

By HELEN THOMAS
HEARST NEWSPAPERS

WASHINGTON -- Attorney General John Ashcroft doesn't have enough to do, hunting down terrorists.

With the help of a rollover Congress, he now has a new and bigger club to go after federal judges who impose lighter sentences in criminal cases than he would like.

As a faithful lord high executioner of the administration's much touted "compassionate conservatism," Ashcroft wants to clamp down on those judges.

At issue are the sentencing guidelines laid down by a federal commission that Congress created in 1984. Under pressure from Ashcroft, Congress voted in April to restrict the flexibility of federal judges to depart from the guidelines. The new law also makes it easier for prosecutors to appeal more cases when they don't like the court-imposed prison sentences

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http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/135517_thomas19.html

[peacetalksforall]

1. Where did these non-compassionate

control and punish freaks come from? Not the United States of America. No way.

[Yaoi_Huntress_Earth]

2. I'm busy wondering

where all the kindness, desire for human rights, and peace that use to be a theme in this country use to be. Yes, yes I know I might be glamorizing a little, but you get the idea.
Love,
Yaoi Huntress Earth

[zonmoy]

5. these nuts

make me think that there must be a hell that they must come from.

[LearnedHand]

3. I'm SO confused!

Why does the president's cabinet (appointed by the president, head of the Executive Branch) have ANY say-so over the Judicial Branch, a constitutionally mandated part of the three-prong system of checks and balances? :freak:

[Vitruvius]

4. May the BFEE criminals someday get what they're dishing out.

With no mercy. Including A$hcroft and Bu$h and Kenny Boy.

These bums must think they'll be in power forever. But they won't. And when they're not, justice must be done to deter future BFEE-type criminals.