Rehnquist Rips Protect Act
Chief Justice William Rehnquist ripped the PROTECT Act in a year end report and said the Act comes too close to intimidation for federal judges involved in sentencing decisions.
By singling out judges who occasionally veer from the toughest sentencing, the law "could appear to be an unwarranted and ill-considered effort to intimidate individual judges in the performance of their judicial duties," the chief justice said.
Rehnquist also blasted Congress for failing to fully fund the federal judiciary. Though he heads the Supreme Court, Rehnquist is "chief justice of the United States" and was speaking for the entire federal judiciary.
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