judicial tyranny

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed May 16 17:07:51 PDT 2001


Nathan Newman wrote:


>As I've repeated, progressives should suck up the judicial deference to
>Congress and organize to change the fucking law. I know one reason a lot of
>lefties like the courts is that the deux ex machina of court decisions means
>they don't have to get their hands dirty with lesser evil decisions in the
>political realm in order to form the majorities necessary for passage of
>legislation.

I'm pleasantly surprised by your position on this. But what do you think would be the best way to organize to defend abortion rights? And what dirty compromises do you imagine are involved?

Doug



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