Richard Sanders on the holding the Bush administration accountable

Washington State Supreme Court Justice Richard Sanders has written an op-ed piece for the Seattle Times: "Attorney General Holder: Hold Bush administration accountable". Note that Sanders is an anti-abortion, anti-gay rights conservative. He gained some notoriety last November during a speech by then-US Attorney General Michael Mukasey before the arch-conservative Federalist Society when he shouted, "Tyrant! You are a tyrant!" (At which point Mukasey collapsed on stage, but probably not because of Sanders' verbal assault.) In the op-ed piece, Sanders says we are a nation of laws, not of men, and that laws were broken by the Bush administration. He specifically warns against allowing "national security" to be used as a trump card against the Constitution. It would be nice if there was a lot more pressure from the right on this issue. I am hugely skeptical that there will be any honest accounting of crimes committed in the name of national security.

Disappeared post

I've taken down the "news from Sharee" post because, well, the situation is very unclear. I *knew* there was a reason why I wasn't posting on the topic!

However, in a more fannish vein, she says she'll be visiting Phil Palmer while she's in New Zealand. Some of you may have known Phil, although I don't think I ever met him. She is currently hanging with Kelly, who I believe is a friend of johnnyeponymous. They're on the way to KIWIBURN, in fact. Buncha hippies, etc etc.