Bush's Legacy: Friendly Courts

If Congress files charges, Bush Aides Will Face Friendly Court. Bush has appointed nearly 300 federal judges, giving Republican appointees a majority nationally, including a 60 percent-to-40 percent advantage on appeals courts.

With criminal charges ready to be filed against current and former White House aides who have defied Congressional investigators, along with continuing questions over whether Bush administration lawyers or the CIA obstructed justice in destroying videotaped interrogations possibly depicting torture, the friendly judiciary could come in handy for Bush and his political allies sooner rather than later.

David Savage, writing in Wednesday's LA Times, says Bush's fingerprints could remain on the federal bench for the next two decades. The Democrats who took over the Senate after the 2006 elections sent 40 new judges to the federal bench last year -- confirming more of Bush's judicial nominees than Republicans did in the previous three years they controlled the Congress.

THIS IS WHY THE 2008 ELECTION IS SO IMPORTANT FOLKS! The Party that controls the White House appoints our federal judges, and THEY have the power to "interpret" our laws!