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• Letters to the Editor 12/3

  Letters to the Editor 12/3

  FDR would really …

  I found Gene Strohl’s letter (Dec. 1) on what FDR would do if he were president today very amusing. However, it was also stimulating in that it got me thinking about what the “real” FDR would do if he were president.

  When FDR inherited a depression, he didn’t bail out Wall Street or the banks. Instead, FDR created the WPA. People in need had to actually work on public projects and get paid for their labor. When he was hit with a terrorist attack at Pearl Harbor, he didn’t mess around with precision bombing nor did he try to limit civilian casualties.

• Letters to the Editor 4/11

  Letters to the Editor 4/11

  Hacks on the bench

  I have a question for Kirby K. Gordon regarding his letter (“Judiciary’s purview,” April 7), expressing how he read with “profound sadness” President Barack Obama’s comments about our unelected Supreme Court and the present overreaching of their power.

  Was he equally filled with “profound sadness” when former President George W. Bush said, The Supreme Court “is the only branch of the government that is unelected and whose officers serve for life. Unfortunately, some justices give into temptation and make law instead of interpreting it. Such judicial lawlessness is a threat to our democracy — and it has to stop.”

• Dan Walters: Rose Bird court laid groundwork for current redistricting decision

  Dan Walters: Rose Bird court laid groundwork for current redistricting decision

  Rose Bird's ghost hung over the California Supreme Court as it wrestled with what to do about a referendum to overturn the state Senate districts wrought by a new redistricting commission.

• Sam Blakeslee not running for re-election after court decision on California Senate maps

  Sam Blakeslee not running for re-election after court decision on California Senate maps

  State Sen. Sam Blakeslee, R-San Luis Obispo, made it official Friday night that he will not seek another term in the wake of the California Supreme Court decision to uphold the Senate maps drawn last year by an independent redistricting commission.

  The high court announced its unanimous decision that the Senate map drawn by the commission should be used in the June primary and November general election, even though an initiative challenging the map is expected to qualify for the ballot.

  Blakeslee told The Tribune in a December interview that he likely would not seek re-election if the court so ruled because the district map, as drawn, strongly favored Democrats over Republicans in party registration.

• Letters to the Editor 4/7

  Letters to the Editor 4/7

  Judiciary’s purview

  It is with profound sadness that I read President Barack Obama’s comments to reporters Monday that if the Supreme Court overturned “Obamacare” that it would amount to “overreach” by “unelected” judges.

  Coming from a lawyer and a former law professor, such comments are indeed surprising and scary. Our forefathers created a Constitution with checks and balances among the legislative, executive and judicial branches. An independent judiciary is one of the cornerstones of our democratic society as every student is taught in their basic civics class.