Court defies Congress, heads to Hawaiian junket
• Washington ExaminerThis weekend, judges, lawyers and staff of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will convene in Hawaii, for a government-funded conference they refused to cancel despite pressure from GOP lawmakers who balked at the junket's $1 million price tag.
For several years I have been intimately aware that this court has no respect for codified law or the Constitution. What makes these congressmen think they will have any respect for Congress. If Congress wants respect my thought is that the bills associated with the event be sent directly to the judges for payment. Warning, however, these judges have the feeling that they are omnipotent.