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July 05, 2005

"I had other options in life"

Posted by Bill

Sandra Day O'Conner reflects on her retirement:

After smashing through every glass ceiling imaginable and climbing to the absolute summit of jurisprudence, I have to put up with every yahoo with a modem critiquing my opinions. Congratulations junior: You've learned how to form basic sentences (barely) in order to criticize me. I'll admit, possessing a powerful intellect, graduating number three from Stanford Law School in 1952, and deciding huge cases for decades hardly compares to your intensive study of "STOP THE ACTIVIST JUDGES" web sites and your unparalleled collection of porn jpeg files. Nevertheless, I've tried to do the best I can.

Belated Update: It's satire, by the way.

Posted by Bill at July 5, 2005 07:37 AM | TrackBack (0)

Comments

As much as I can sympathize with why O'Connor said what she said, her statement is pure elitist snobbery. I may not have graduated #3 from Stanford Law, but I also didn't vote to allow municipalities to confiscate private property-holders' land.

So she got fed up and quit. Not exactly a noble legacy.

She should start a blog!

Posted by: Allan G at July 5, 2005 08:42 AM

When, when, when will I learn to read the linked page before posting? DOH!

Posted by: Allan G at July 5, 2005 08:46 AM

And Allan, compounding your offense? She voted against Kelo.

Posted by: Bill from INDC at July 5, 2005 09:11 AM

Ok, Bill, granted, you have to admit that that story is 'fake but accurate' and Sandra Day likely voted against Kelo only after voting for it!

Posted by: Allan G at July 5, 2005 03:08 PM

Sandra Day O'Connor, and all the justices of the Supreme Court would do well to remember, or in case of the pale eight actually read, the opening phrase of the Constitution of the United States:

"We the people of the United States."

It is the people of the United States, and not the justices of the Supreme Court, who created this nation. It is the people and not the nine black robed jurists who own the Constitution.

It is my Constitution, as it is yours. O'Connor owns no more of the Constitution than I do, as we all do. We all have the right to disparage anybody who would do harm to the Constitution, as O'Connor has done, far more than most.

Posted by: David at July 6, 2005 09:35 AM