Crisis in the Federal Courts

Another example of the effect of irresponsible, intransigent ideological posturing now substituting for rational governance in Congress. They ignore their oaths and placate uneducated minorities while driven by self-aggrandizement or sitting in cowardly obstructionism.  We would do well with our own "American Spring" movement. 

"The nation’s independent federal court system, though hardly perfect, is central to American democracy and the rule of law. Its current crisis was created by Washington politicians, and Washington politicians hold the power to solve it. The letter from the judges asks that Congress approve the $496 million increase in funding for the judiciary recently approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee even if a continuing budget resolution is enacted this fall keeping government spending at its current level.

That would be the reasonable thing to do, even though reason is in short supply in today’s Washington."

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/26/opinion/federal-courts-in-crisis.html?_r=0