The Supreme Court – Unrepresentative And Illegitimate: The 33.3 Percent Solution (October 1, 2012)
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C1 “What else can you say. A series of individual decisions have spawned an unrepresentative and illegitimate institution. Nine bureaucrats and technicians with limited life and work experience plucked from the two most profitable law schools (Harvard or Yale (or Columbia)) and practicing one of the two most powerful religions (Catholicism or Judaism) in America are too provincial and too parochial for a county as varied and diverse as the United States.”
C2 “And all hail from or are products of the parochial Province of WaNeBos (Washington/New York/Boston). A solution is at hand. The three Justices drawn randomly from a hat containing all nine names take senior status with a suspension or waiver of the “Rule of 80” if necessary so that they can retire comfortably. For the good of the cause. For the good of the Court. For the good of the country.”
C1 “Greater care and concern for the common good is paramount. At least one should be a Buddhist intellectual with Northwestern, Midwestern or Western roots and branches who has actually practiced law and lived life.”
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C1/C2 “No one ever gives up power. Didn’t a few of them tell a few fibs to the Senate?”
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[C1 = Court Watcher 1, C2 = . . . ]
[Fifty years ago today, James Meredith enrolled at the University of Mississippi, with a little help from his friends. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/01/us/university-of-mississippi-commemorates-integration.html]
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