Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg Happy With Democratic Congress

Are relations between lawmakers and judges better with Democrats in control of Congress? Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg seems to think so, according to a talk on judicial independence she gave at a recent judges' conference.

"Particularly since the 2006 election, I am pleased to relate, rapport between Congress and the federal courts has markedly improved," Ginsburg said at a meeting of American and Canadian judges in Vancouver.

No bills limiting judges' independence have been introduced in the current Congress and "one sees far fewer broadsides against 'activist judges' reported in the press," Ginsburg said.

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She recounted with distaste comments about judges made in 2005 by two Texas Republicans, then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay and Sen. John Cornyn.

DeLay was frustrated by the federal judges who refused to order a feeding tube for severely brain damaged Terri Schiavo, despite Congress' passage of a law giving the federal courts jurisdiction to review her case. "The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior," DeLay said after Schiavo died.

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