All that and more,
how did the republicans ever get to the point where judges must dotheir bidding---or else? even the nyt says this is scary
The New York Times > Opinion > Editorial: The Judges Made Them Do It: "horrifying even by the rock-bottom standards of the campaign that Republican zealots are conducting against the nation's judiciary. Senator John Cornyn, a Texas Republican, rose in the chamber and dared to argue that recent courthouse violence might be explained by distress about judges who 'are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public.' The frustration 'builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in' violence, said Mr. Cornyn, a former member of the Texas Supreme Court who is on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which supposedly protects the Constitution and its guarantee of an independent judiciary."