A TPM Reader with a question for Sen. Cornyn …
Sen. Cornyn hypothesized that violent acts against judges are the work of people reacting against “unaccountable political decisions” by judges. Really? Perhaps the Senator could flesh that theory out a little to Judge Joan Lefkow of Chicago, who recently endured the murder of her husband and mother. Is that one of the “episodes of courthouse violence” that Cornyn refers to? Exactly what unaccountable political decisions did Judge Lefkow make that led the deranged Ross to brutally murder her family? Cornyn owes Judge Lefkow an apology for this apalling and outrageous comment.
The Lefkow case clearly was one of the instances of violence Cornyn was referring to. That, and presumably the murder of Judge Barnes in Atlanta.
