From Bad Politics
just received a note from a friendly source suggesting that Rehnquist will announce his retirement tomorrow. Last Friday morning, this same person told me that O’Connor would step down (3-4 hours before it hit the AP wire).
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That’ll sure make things interesting . . .
I mean honestly.
I was screaming at the top of my lungs all through the ’04 election cycle that if we relected Bush, he would get at least two SCOTUS appointments….if the, ahem, “opposition party” rolls on these, it will be the end of the beginning of the end.
Scalia as Chief Justice?? Excuse me, I have to go throw up.
Anybody remember what happened on The West Wing (TV show) when a conservative SC justice suddenly died?
The administration wanted to appoint the very liberal justice played by Glenn Close, but the GOP was insisting the president appoint another conservative. Bartlett convinced the ailing liberal Chief Justice to retire, then reached a compromise with the GOP in which he appointed Close’s liberal justice and a conservative justice, thereby maintaining the balance in the court.
If only life could imitate art in this instance. Maybe we allow one nutter in exchange for one moderate. I know… wishful thinking.
is no Bartlett.
(huge West Wing fan here!) 🙂
That may be as good a case as we can hope for. 🙁
As if we weren’t all down enough, what with catnip, lorraine, and shirlstars all posting (excellent) rants, and booman in a funk…
Actually, I suggested this on 7/1:
and suggested that one justice would be a red-meat conservative, and the other would be Gonzales. Will that get me a drink at the FBC? I may need it…
How much nightmare can I take?
“Fasten your seatbelts, boys…it’s going to be a bumpy ride.”
Well, now we’re really going to see if the Democrats have developed any cojones in the last 4+ years…