[lbo-talk] Re: Calabresi: Bush's rise like Hitler's or Mussolini's

[Tim Francis-Wright]

andie nachgeborenen wrote [except for the question in brackets]:


>>[This guy is a serious ruling-class character, no?]
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> He's one of the most respected judges in the country,
> and used to be a legal academic of formidable
> reputation. There is something to having a judiciary
> with life tenure . . . . However, it's pretty
> astounding to have a judge make that kind of public
> intervention in politics.

And his son Massimo is on staff at Time magazine, covering part of the 
national politics beat.

--tim f-w