How in its editors' right minds, with Rethugs and other cracked-pot fundies reaching ever-greater heights of violent lunacy, would a major paper print the image of a judge who struck down one of the loonies' sacred calves? They shoot judges, don't they? With encourgement from various Rethug congressional leaders?
I would be suing them for reckless endangerment (and would lose) just to make a point.
Addendum cribbed from Atrios:
"I don't know if there is a cause-and-effect connection but we have seen some recent episodes of courthouse violence in this country. Certainly nothing new, but 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 in some quarters on some occasions where 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.
"A federal judge whose family was murdered asked the Senate on Wednesday to condemn harsh remarks about the judiciary by commentators such as evangelist Pat Robertson and members of Congress, saying their words could spark more violence.
""Fostering disrespect for judges can only encourage those that are on the edge, or on the fringe, to exact revenge on a judge who displeases them," U.S. District Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow told the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"Her husband and mother were slain in the couple's Chicago home in February. Bart Ross, a 57-year-old unemployed electrician from Chicago, committed suicide in suburban Milwaukee in March after leaving a note confessing to the murders. He had been angered when Lefkow dismissed a malpractice suit he had filed, authorities said."
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So imagine some nutbar who thinks Judge John E. Jones III is trying to dis his or her god, let alone their malpractice suit... slap said judges' picture all over the wires... grab a calculator and punch up the calculus of potential violence...