Recently retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor delivered a scathing speech at Georgetown University on March 9th, decrying the Right's partisan attacks (both verbal and sometimes physical!) on judges who don't rule the way the Right-Wing wants them to. Partisan attacks, she said, on what is supposed to be an independent judiciary are the beginning acts of a dictatorship, and if we don't want to go there, we shouldn't even start.

It's interesting to note that this has received only the slightest coverage by that much-condemned American "liberal media" our conservative friends complain so much about. One would think that if the media were truly liberal, they would have been on this like a pit-bull on a pork chop.

The Guardian picked it up. CLICKY.

But the only person to report on this initially was Nina Totenberg of NPR. A few—a very few—newspapers have picked up on this, but, so far, no television news services that I know of.

You can hear Nina Totenberg's report HERE.

Don Firth