More From Andrew Cohen

The CBS News analyst and blogger has commentary "Judge Thyself --- And Soon," at WashingtonPost.com.  LINK

You don't have to be a Washington insider to know that federal judges are under enormous political pressures these days from conservatives in Congress who want to limit the power and the authority of the bench. So what are too many otherwise bright federal judges doing? They reportedly are violating ethics rules, sloppily and sometimes arrogantly, and thereby giving their political enemies valuable traction in the battle between the branches. In fact, these regular tormentors of the judiciary are back, circling around the robed flock these days with their latest bad idea.