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To: sandintoes who wrote (449997)	8/29/2003 3:43:44 AM
From: sandintoes	Respond to of 769667

Thursday, Aug. 28, 2003 Thousands of Bleeding-Heart Judges Break the Law Here's an item to confound those who say suspended Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore must cave to a federal court's order against his monument to the Ten Commandments: Thousands of bleeding-heart leftist judges routinely break the law and get away with it. More than 10,000 of nearly 55,000 federal sentences in fiscal 2001, about 18 percent, were "downward departures" from mandatory sentencing laws, according to the U.S. Sentencing Commission, a federal agency created in 1984 to implement the rules. President Bush, a frequent critic of activist judges who do whatever they feel like, in April signed a law designed to rein them in. Those judges now must state their reasons in writing to make it easier for appeals courts to overturn lenient sentences. Leftist activists and even Chief Justice William Rehnquist flew into a snit last month when Attorney General John Ashcroft ordered U.S. attorneys to tell the Department of Justice when a federal judge breaks the law. Democrats in the Congress hope to pass bills rolling back the restrictions, USA Today reported today. So, if it's OK for federal judges to do whatever they want, why isn't that OK for Justice Moore? 77% Back Display of Ten Commandments By the way, a new USA Today/CNN/Gallup Poll says 77 percent of Americans oppose the removal of the Ten Commandments monument in Alabama.