Yowza! Sandra Day O' Connor speaks up!

Sandra Day O'Connor, now returned from Supreme Court Justice to civilian status, took the opportunity of a speech at Georgetown to slam recent attacks on the independence of the judiciary.

I, said O’Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.

Tell it, sistah!!

(via Attytood)