DeLay Wants Panel to Review Role of Courts (washingtonpost.com)

DeLay Wants Panel to Review Role of Courts (washingtonpost.com):

"DeLay issued a statement asserting that 'the time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior.' He later said in front of television cameras that he wants to 'look at an arrogant, out-of-control, unaccountable judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president.'

Democrats continued to criticize DeLay yesterday, with Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) charging that the Republican might have broken a federal statute against threatening U.S. judges.

'Threats against specific federal judges are not only a serious crime, but also beneath a Member of Congress,' Lautenberg wrote. 'Your attempt to intimidate judges in America not only threatens our courts, but our fundamental democracy as well.'"