[Lancey Howard]

Did you ever run across that one woman who they keep going to for sound bites? The one who prefers the "tyranny of the minority" model, where if one person feels "uncomfortable" then everybody else can go jump in a lake? She claims that she clerked for O'Connor. Maybe O'Connor's rapid decline in her later years is in part because she used poor judgment in hiring athiest scumbags like this woman as clerks.

[Congressman Billybob]

Your point is well taken. The clerks are always young people, full of p*ss and vinegar, fresh out of academia, ready to change the world. It logically follows that when the Justices grow older and more feeble, the influence of the clerks over the Justice's output necessarily grows.

Justice Thurgood Marshall was reduced to watching sitcoms in his chambers, before he retired. Justice Douglas was drooling, before he retired. The last opinions to come from the chambers of both of them, were entirely clerk-generated.

The best source to understand how the Court actually functions behind its high marble walls, read The Brethren. Then, plug into that process the logical result as Justices grow old and feeble. Prior to the death of Chief Justice Rehnquist, the Court was the most old and feeble in its history.

Congressman Billybob

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