Tuesday, June 17, 2008

The Crytocracy Marches on

The WSJ reports that the Grand Jury investigating the firing of US attorneys by the Bush administration now has a jury referral, focusing on possible perjury by Bradley Schlozman, an interim US attorney.

The march of the Crytocracy (rule by judges) proceeds apace. It has now established that the professional judgment of Lawyers about what class of cases to focus on is above the questioning of mere elected officials. It is not just judges but now the prosecutors who are apparently to have lifetime tenure. Since there is no actual law that says this the rule will at first be enforced by setting perjury traps for minor officials tasked with enforcing political control. When politicians have been thoroughly scared off questioning their betters a future court will "discover" a new principle in the evolving practices of our system and those of other advanced democracies.

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