On 07/01/04 at 05:25 AM, "Poor, Edmund W"
<Edmund.W.Poor(a)abc.com> said:
I think it's important for the Wikipedia
articles to reflect that fact
that many Americans take just the attitude you described above:
that America "does something better than most of the world does" by
"having an independent judiciary that is largely in the hands of people
who understand the concept of due process of law and even approve of it"
Making due note, of course, of such egregious lapses such as the Supreme Court
decision which made Bush president. At this point, the US might have something to learn
from, say, Bolivia on how to run a fair presidential election.
I would give the senior U. S. judiciary the benefit of the doubt in
these matters. Some local judges may be a problem when they are the
product of local power brokers, and need not know anything about the law
in order to gain their positions.
The problem with the judicial system is often the expense of being
properly represented. It doesn't matter that your position in a case
may be correct "in the eyes of God", when God is not willing to pay your
legal bills. The judges may be absolutely fair; just try to get there.
Ec