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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lizzie Tudor who wrote (25513)	1/1/1999 4:11:00 PM
From: DMaA	Respond to of 67261

That's the key to maintaining freedom - atomize the power. Spread it out thin and wide. That way the RR, the RL, the athiest left, the fuzzy headed but nice crowd, what ever, no one group can corner the market. Here's an encouraging sign that the 50 year march to consolidate power in Washington may be turning around. AP January 1, 1999 Laurie Asseo WASHINGTON (AP) -- Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist criticized Congress on Thursday for making federal crimes out of offenses already covered by state law. In his annual year-end report on the federal judiciary, Rehnquist blamed the trend on pressure in Congress to ''appear responsive to every highly publicized societal ill or sensational crime.'' This pressure must be balanced against consideration of whether states are adequately handling such cases and ''whether we want most of our legal relationships decided at the national rather than local level,'' he said. Rehnquist, the nation's top judge, did not mention his impending duty to preside over a Senate trial for President Clinton, who has been impeached by the House. On Thursday, the chief justice toured the Senate chamber and its anterooms for about an hour under tight security. Rehnquist's report said the trend of federalizing crimes has contributed to a double-digit increase in the number of criminal cases in federal courts and ''threatens to change entirely the nature of our federal system.'' ''Federal courts were not created to adjudicate local crimes, no matter how sensational or heinous the crimes may be,'' Rehnquist said. ''Matters that can be handled adequately by the states should be left to them.'' Rehnquist said the number of federal criminal case filings rose by 15 percent -- to 57,691 cases -- in 1998. ''Not since 1972 have the criminal filings risen by double digits,'' he said. As an example of a federalized crime, he listed a 1994 law that allows a large number of arsons to be prosecuted as federal crimes. Also, he listed three 1992 laws: the Anti-Car Theft Act, which federalizes carjacking offenses; the Child Support Recovery Act, which makes it a federal crime to fail to pay support for a child living in another state; and the Animal Enterprise Protection Act, which makes it a federal offense to travel interstate to disrupt zoos or circuses. . . .