”… we seem to have run through a spate of courthouse violence recently that’s been on the news and I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception… [that] judges are making political decisions yet are unaccountable to the public, that it builds up and builds up and builds up to the point where some people engage in-engage in violence.”
-Senator John Cornyn (R-TX)
“We will look at an unaccountable, arrogant, out-of-control judiciary that thumbed their nose at Congress and the president … The time will come for the men responsible for this to answer for their behavior.”
-House Majority Leader Rep. Tom Delay(R-TX)