The bench tilts. (Devil In The Details).(Brief Article)

DO REPUBLICAN JUDGES have any sense of honor at all?

First, the all-power-to-the-states gang of five on the Supreme Court overthrows the sovereignty of Florida courts over Florida law to ensure the election of George W. Bush--noting in passing that this decision was not to be taken as a precedent for anything else.

In mid-December, however, it was taken as a precedent--not by a liberal judge trying to reaffirm national standards but by a right-wing judge who ruled, like the Supremes, that there's one law for Republicans and another for Democrats, and plaintiffs confuse the ...