Politics: Supreme Court Wrapup
Last week at the office I noodled with a Supreme Court wrap-up that dealt with civil rights and civil liberties concerns. And any recent reader of the Liquid List has surely noticed that the potential for a Supreme Court retirement has been a big issue for yours truly in a professional way.
But all that was gradually laid to rest over the past few weeks, as the chance of a retirement ebbed to nearly nothing.
Today, Sandra Day O'Connor moved those almost invisible chances one tick closer to gone with this exchange with George Stephanopolous:
Whew. But since I'm over at the New York Times discussing the Supreme Court, I'll mention Linda Greenhouse's column about the chance for change on the high court
Greenhouse does an excellent job of lending humanity to this band of inscrutable jurists. Little touches that come from a long career of careful observation make Greenhouse one of the best Court-watchers in the business. The band of court-watchers is almost as tight as the Supreme Court members. (Walter Dellinger and Dahlia Lithwick's Breakfast Table discussion from the end of the term gives readers a view of a few more of those veteran watchers.) But they offer us a valuable half-peek into the world of the nation's highest court, who demonstrated this term that they were truly living -- for the most part -- in the real world where the rest of us live, with everybody, gay and straight enduring the persistent, painful sting of racism and sexism. Greenhouse's piece picks this out perfectly.
Last week at the office I noodled with a Supreme Court wrap-up that dealt with civil rights and civil liberties concerns. And any recent reader of the Liquid List has surely noticed that the potential for a Supreme Court retirement has been a big issue for yours truly in a professional way.
But all that was gradually laid to rest over the past few weeks, as the chance of a retirement ebbed to nearly nothing.
Today, Sandra Day O'Connor moved those almost invisible chances one tick closer to gone with this exchange with George Stephanopolous:
The show's host, George Stephanopoulos, referring to widespread speculation that she was about to retire, asked, "Should we take your silence to mean you intend to serve out the next term?"
"Oh, I assume so," she answered.
Whew. But since I'm over at the New York Times discussing the Supreme Court, I'll mention Linda Greenhouse's column about the chance for change on the high court
Greenhouse does an excellent job of lending humanity to this band of inscrutable jurists. Little touches that come from a long career of careful observation make Greenhouse one of the best Court-watchers in the business. The band of court-watchers is almost as tight as the Supreme Court members. (Walter Dellinger and Dahlia Lithwick's Breakfast Table discussion from the end of the term gives readers a view of a few more of those veteran watchers.) But they offer us a valuable half-peek into the world of the nation's highest court, who demonstrated this term that they were truly living -- for the most part -- in the real world where the rest of us live, with everybody, gay and straight enduring the persistent, painful sting of racism and sexism. Greenhouse's piece picks this out perfectly.
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