According to this story on Yahoo, John Ashcroft, former head of the Justice Department, is saying that Federal Judges are "jeopardizing national security by issuing rulings contradictory to President Bush" and that "Courts are not equipped to execute the law. They are not accountable to the people".
What an utter load of crud! As an outsider this appears to be a man who is critising all those who disagree with his bosses point of view, and is therefore marking them as unPatriotic or trying to undermine the rule of democracy.
Surely courts must be equipped to execute the law, otherwise who is? Would anyone give politicians that control? They already control the writing of laws and passing them, it is not appropriate that they are then responsible for the enforcement of them.
The judicial system in any country must be seen to be an agent for the Law as decreed by whomever is in power. Not being an expert in law, it has appeared to me that the process of legislation is to codify a set of rules/guidelines that society must abide by. If those laws are wrong it should be those that must administer them to raise those issues and rebalance them.
I think most people would say that any politician has a certain vested interest in any law they pass, and any advocate/dissenter of a law especially, so how can these people be appropriate to review and balance the law.
