Comments on: Ron Wyden: “There is No Doubt in My Mind That John Roberts Will Vote to Overturn Roe v. Wade”

By: firedoglake

firedoglake — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Sorry you got burned on a bad book deal, Jimmm, but I stand by my assessment of Nancy Bass — she was smart, funny, well-informed, self-deprecating, and in college we would have called her a “reg,” which was the highest compliment afforded, meaning a “regular person” who “got it” and didn’t take herself too seriously.

And she was wearing great shoes.

By: mandt

mandt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Its too crazy! Robert’s is a hanger judge. M

By: mandt

mandt — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Great article J.! Next time in SB make a copy of it, take some fellow Democrats, wear some ninja suits and leave it on my brother’s doorstep on the Mesa—-he needs a heart attack.. M

By: Jimmm

Jimmm — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Nancy Bass, “extra cool” owner of the Strand, where the counter help treat all who bring in books to sell like criminals (even though Strand regularly resells galleys, which is an expressly forbidden no-no)? Where cheating itinerant book collectors (okay, bums who dumpster dive outside NYU dorms in June) is a contest for bragging rites?

Jane, Sen. Wyden may be as cool as the other side of the pillow on a bed of ice, but nothing about the Strand is even remotely tepid, let alone cool.

By: GreggR

GreggR — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I would expect Roberts to vote with Scalia over 95% of the time–yes, he’s worth fighting against!

By: Steady Eddie

Steady Eddie — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Ncko — while you’re very close re O’Connor, it’s much less policy-oriented than that. She was very much taken aback by the vehement reaction in much of the legal community about her role in the Bush v. Gore abomination, especially in the context of those remarks.

But her staying over the past four years had very little to do with policy, and mostly were based in her own self-image. She did realize that it would appear unseemly to the world for her single vote to determine the person who would name her successor — and so her waiting was not “as long as she could”, but only until Bush stole the 2004 election without her help.

Whether she would have retired had Kerry won is anyone’s guess.

By: nckoalagal

nckoalagal — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Wyden: “He also said we owe yet another big heap of thanks to Sandra Day O’Connor, who would’ve stayed on the court ’til she was a hundred if Kerry had won.

This contradicts what she actually said on election night 2000.

From: http://archive.democrats.com/p.....ign%202000
“Now, Newsweek confirms that Sandra Day O’Connor shouted ‘this is terrible’ when Florida was called for Gore early on Election Eve. Her husband explained to the surprised party goers that the O’Connors wanted to retire to Arizona, but if Gore won Sandra would stay on four more years just to keep Gore from appointing a ‘Democrat’ jurist.”

So what changed her mind? According to THIS, she should have retired happily once she helped Bush get safely ensconsed. Instead, she stayed and became more centrist than ever. I would like to think she took one look at “the crazies” she helped to install, regretted her part in Dubya’s illegitimate election, got conscience and hung in there as long as she could.

By: Savage Tan

Savage Tan — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

“but also because Oregon state senator Ron Wyden was going to be there”

Ron Wyden is a U.S. Senator representing Oregon — Not an “Oregon state senator.”

Those are two very different things.

By: Tata

Tata — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

You treed him! Your prose thrills me!

Curiously, my post text is centered. I feel overdressed with a quirky alignment!

By: firedoglake

firedoglake — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, RJ, you definitely qualifity as a member of the cool & beautiful wife crowd.