August 23, 2006

Judge Anna Diggs Taylor

Should a federal judge be honored for doing his or her job?

Well, in the age of Bushevism, yes. Particularly when it comes to protecting the Constitution of the United States of America from usurpation by a silent incremental coup.

The Bush Administration's illegal wiretapping is only one of its many violations of the rule of law. Judge Anna Diggs Taylor ruled last week that the Bush Administration must obey the Constitution. She trenchantly noted that America is not a monarchy, and that the executive branch wiretapping without legal justification should cease and desist.

As a USA Today editorial in the wake of the Taylor ruling noted, "By ignoring the law, and making specious arguments that powers contained in Article II make the president virtually unaccountable to either the courts or Congress, the president shows contempt for the other branches and exposes his determination to concentrate power within his own -- with no particular gain for the war on terrorism."

Yes, in this age of a nation slouching toward dictatorship -- and a federal judiciary increasingly packed with "unitary authority' GOP hacks -- it is an act of courage to uphold the law and hold the thugs in the White House accountable.

After all Congress isn't doing their job in protecting the Constitution, so Judge Anna Diggs Taylor deserves to be honored as the BuzzFlash "Wings of Justice Award" Winner this week.

It's a courageous act -- and act of justice -- to tell the would-be monarchs at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue that, as it does for every American citizen, the law applies to them.

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Nominated by Stephen A. Justino of Centennial, CO

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