Meanwhile Tom Delay and a fellow Republican lawmaker are coming under criticism for recent statements they made about the judiciary. Last week Tom Delay said that judges who ruled against Terri Schiavo’s family would have to “answer for their behavior.” Days later fellow Republican Senator Tom Cornyn said that there may be a link between courthouse violence and activist judges. Cornyn said, “I wonder whether there may be some connection between the perception…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 violence.” The New York Times criticized both Delay and Cornyn in an editorial today. The paper wrote “It was appalling when the House majority leader threatened political retribution against judges who did not toe his extremist political line. But when a second important Republican stands up and excuses murderous violence against judges as an understandable reaction to their decisions, then it is time to get really scared.”