Activist judges run amok...

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DC Confidential - November 29, 2006 -->
By Chuck Muth

OH, FOR CRYING OUT LOUD

A federal judge has ruled that the fact that blind people can’t see means the federal government is “discriminating” against them by not printing paper money in such a way that blind folks can tell which denominations are which without looking at them, despite the existence of electronic devices which help the blind do just that.

Government officials argued that changing the sizes and/or textures of different bills would make it harder to combat counterfeiting, not to mention the cost taxpayers would incur to make such a change. But U.S. District Court Judge James Robertson wasn’t having any of it, ruling that our Georgie Washingtons and Al Hamiltons today are in violation of the Rehabilitation Act, whatever the hell THAT is.

In a true shocker, Judge Robertson was appointed by President Bill Clinton in 1994.
In unrelated news, another federal judge ruled yesterday that President Bush doesn’t have the authority to call a terrorist group a terrorist group and block their assets. In so ruling, U.S. District Judge Audrey Collins removed yet another weapon from the president’s arsenal in the war against terrorists.

Guess which president appointed Judge Collins in 1994?

THIS is why judicial appointments below the Supreme Court level are SO important. And THIS why the Republican-controlled Senate should hang its head in shame for not filling all the vacant lower-court seats currently open when they had their chance over the past two years.