[lbo-talk] O'Connor Resigns: Bush's Second Trifecta?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

>[lbo-talk] O'Connor Resigns (secret minutes)
>Jim Devine jdevine03 at gmail.com
>Sat Jul 2 08:07:38 PDT 2005
<snip>
>After the resignation of Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, co-presidents 
>Karl Rove and Dick Cheney met to discuss who should replace her:
>
>"How about John?"
>
>"Ashcroft?  no... he's really good, but he's been sick. He's too 
>old. Besides, we need a woman to replace a woman."
>
>"Yeah, I like how we used the affirmative action ploy to sand-bag 
>those liberals with Clarence ... Okay, how about Phyllis or Anita?"
>
>"No law degrees, but that's not the issue. The problem is that 
>Schlaffly and Bryant are too old. We need someone who will shape the 
>court for generations, like Clarence."

William H. Rehnquist, afflicted with thyroid cancer, missed "44 oral 
arguments before the court in late 2004 and early 2005," ("William 
Rehnquist, a Biography," Justice News Daily, 2005) and is unlikely to 
last very long; and John Paul Stevens, who had prostate cancer, is 85 
years old, still vigorous though he appears to be.  Will Bush, one 
lucky SOB, hit another trifecta (cf. 
<http://montages.blogspot.com/2005/07/sandra-day-oconnor-resigns-will-bush.html>)?
-- 
Yoshie

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