Gonzales: Judges unfit to rule on national security

[sigma7]

For every step forward, a step back.

WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says federal judges are unqualified to make rulings affecting national security policy, ramping up his criticism of how they handle terrorism cases.

In remarks prepared for delivery Wednesday, Gonzales says judges generally should defer to the will of the president and Congress when deciding national security cases. He also raps jurists who “apply an activist philosophy that stretches the law to suit policy preferences.”

The text of the speech, scheduled for delivery at the American Enterprise Institute, was obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press. It outlines, in part, what qualities the Bush administration looks for when selecting candidates for the federal bench.

“We want to determine whether he understands the inherent limits that make an unelected judiciary inferior to Congress or the president in making policy judgments,” Gonzales says in the prepared speech. “That, for example, a judge will never be in the best position to know what is in the national security interests of our country.”

The level of naked contempt for American constitutional law baffles me.

Comments

World gone mad, indeed.

[jkgriffin.livejournal.com]

I could understand that kind of .. Well, I could understand a speech like that coming from someone who had an agenda and never went to law school, but not from somebody who would have taken the bar. Utterly appalling, offensive, and wrong.

[motteditor.livejournal.com]

Actually, that attitude makes sense. You wonder how someone with any respect for the Constitution could do some of the things this administration does. Well, now it's clear they simply don't care about the Constitution.