Monday, March 13

WHAT'S O'CONNOR AFRAID OF?


Former SCOTUS justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a Republlican and Reagan nominee, utters an electrifying warning in a closed forum, with only one reporter (NPR's Nina Totenberg) present. No recording, no transcripts, just Nina's notes. So the Guardian's Jonathan Raban asks why?

O'Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.
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These are peculiar times, and when Republican politicians appear to endorse the killing of judges who make rulings of which they disapprove, it's maybe understandable that a distinguished judge like Sandra Day O'Connor, expressing views calculated to enrage Republican politicians, might sensibly look to a small podium with a weak sound system for fear of being heard too clearly by the likes of Cornyn and DeLay.


That last paragraph is chilling, isn't it?

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