Scary thought: Rehnquist About To Croak

[stopbush]

It just hit me - what if bushco has insider info that Rehnquist is about to croak? He looks like shit these days. Maybe that's why they're hopping on this O'Connor replacement - the MSM will turn the whole thing into another John Paul II orgy with the double whammy of nominee/death of the nation's top judge.

Rovegate would be a whimper in the MSM (not that it would put the brakes on Fitzgerald).

[JuniperLea]

1. have you seen recent pictures?

that poor old dude is hanging on by a thread, literally for dear life.

bless his heart.

[Retired AF Dem]

2. Thanks

for adding some class to this thread.

[JuniperLea]

6. excuse me?

wtf? how does my post lack any less class than the original post? hmmmm?

imo, anyone who has to use the word 'class' doesn't know what it is. seriously. it's like someone insisting on a stretch limo instead of a town-car.

[Swamp Rat]

7. Class is in the eye of the beholder.

There was nothing wrong with your post. I have also encountered a lot of weird responses this morning. :shrug:

[JuniperLea]

8. thanks swamp rat

i thought i was losing it. maybe it's something in the air... or maybe there is just too much going on right now. i'm finding myself a bit agitated what with the judge decision(s), high treason, etc. it just feels like we are hitting 'critical mass' or something. and that one thing coming to a head will spark others. we truly do live in interesting times. and that moron we have as president... sheesh!

wot? me close to a decision? *chuckle* thanks for letting me know.

next thing you hear is, he has indeed made a decision, and it's causing flack from the left and the right. weirdness.

[LSparkle]

3. That's why I'm glad Rovegate is in Fitzgerald's hands

Even if the story falls off the evening news, it'll roar back with a vengeance if anyone is indicted.

I think Rehnquist was offended (as I would be too) by all the speculation about Shrub being able to name two justices at once; I almost took his announcement as a snub. ("I'LL be the one to say when I'm going, NOT YOU.")

[AndyTiedye]

4. He Will Fire Fitzgerald While We Are Distracted on the Supreme Court

Not that we can ignore what he is up to there either, because he
intends to pack the Court with Dominionist Fundies.

[cosmicdot]

5. if 'the Rehnquist Story' is playing in the background ...

what effect might that have, if any, on the replacement process?


Will the Federalist Society deliver name(s) to Bu$h indicating more of the same mindset and past, or worse?


-- knowing, of course, that the Corporate Media will cooperate as much as possible to help the Radical Republicans keep lids on things, and the Talking Points in line --


from "The Court That Throttled Democracy", Published on Wednesday, December 13, 2000

~snip~

They grew strong when the pruners missed William Rehnquist. Rehnquist became the chief justice of the land in 1986 despite having owned two homes, one in suburban Phoenix and one in Vermont, that had covenants against selling to Jews and people of color.

The man who is supposed to know every detail of the law said, ''I simply can't answer whether I read through the deed or not. While very offensive, it has no legal effect.''

Rehnquist became chief justice despite being the only dissenting judge in an 8-1 decision in 1983 that upheld federal policies that denied tax-exempt status to Bob Jones University, which bans interracial dating. Bob Jones University was where Republican presidential candidate George W. Bush spoke this year to cement his image with right-wing conservatives.

Rehnquist became chief justice even though he was accused - in the most delicious irony yet of this disputed presidential election - of behavior that is eerily close to that which may have bedeviled African-American voters in Florida.

Democratic Party workers in Arizona testified in 1986 that in the early 1960s, then Republican operative Rehnquist harassed people of color in Phoenix with literacy tests at the polls.

Sydney Smith, a psychologist, said that Rehnquist once saw two African-American voters in line, walked up to them, held up a white card and said, ''You don't know how to read, do you? You don't belong in this line, and you should leave.''

http://www.commondreams.org/views/121300-101.htm

another article: published Tuesday, December 12th, 2000

"As Supreme Court Decides Presidency, Chief Justice Rehnquist Is Accused of Past Harassment of Black Voters at the Polls"

"Today's Supreme Court decision may determine the next president of the United States. But William Rehnquist, the Chief Justice of the court-- tasked with determining whose ballots will count and be counted-- has a history of racism and excluding people of color from voting.

In 1964, Rehnquist demonstrated his segregationist sentiments when he fought the passage of a Phoenix ordinance permitting Blacks to enter stores and restaurants.

Between 1958 and 1962, when Rehnquist was a private attorney in Arizona, he served as the director of Republican "ballot security" operations in poor neighborhoods in Phoenix. Rehnquist was part of Operation Eagle Eye, a flying squad of GOP lawyers that swept through polling places in minority-dominated districts to challenge the right of African Americans and Latinos to vote. At the time, Democratic poll watchers had to physically push Rehnquist out of the polling place to stop him from interfering with voting rights.

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=03/04/07/0247252