O'Connor details half-baked attempt to kill Supreme Court

CNN.com ^ | POSTED: 2028 GMT (0428 HKT), November 17, 2006 | Kevin Bohn - CNN

[PeterFinn]

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cookies mailed to the U.S. Supreme Court last year contained enough rat poison to kill all nine justices, retired member Sandra Day O'Connor said at a conference last week.

Barbara Joan March, a 60-year-old Connecticut woman, was sentenced last month to 15 years in prison. She sent 14 threatening letters in April 2005 -- each with a baked good or piece of candy laced with rat poison -- to a variety of federal officials: the nine Supreme Court justices; FBI Director Robert Mueller; his deputy; the chief of naval operations; the Air Force chief of staff and the chief of staff of the Army.

March pleaded guilty in March to 14 counts of mailing injurious articles.

March's plea received little public attention until O'Connor discussed it last week.

"Every member of the Supreme Court received a wonderful package of home-baked cookies, and I don't know why, (but) the staff decided to analyze them," the Fort Worth Star-Telegram quoted O'Connor as saying at the legal conference November 10 in the Dallas area. "Each one contained enough poison to kill the entire membership of the court."

[PeterFinn]

Took a long time for this news to come out.

[paudio]

I don't know why, (but) the staff decided to analyze them,"

I'm wondering if that's because somebody had a second thought...

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Took a long time for this news to come out."

Could the reason be that the left needed Barbara Joan's vote last week? ;)

[AnAmericanMother]

Notice they don't say anything about the politics of the perp.

Which means she must be a loony leftist - if she were a right wing fanatic it would be all over CNN.

[Responsibility2nd]

Barbara Joan March reminds me of the batty old aunts in Arsenic & Old Lace.

Such a sweet little old lady.

[Revolting cat!]

Barabra March? Oh, no, the aliens are behind it!

[sodpoodle]

Hilary's coulda shoulda woulda cookies?

[mewzilla]

Connecticut woman pleads guilty to mailing threats and rat poison to government officials in D.C.

[digger48]

Did the ones to Kennedy and O'Conner have a surprise jelly filling?

[dinoparty]

What do you think would have happened if all the Justices had been murdered? Obviously, nine new Justices would have been needed pronto, but with the politics involved, could that have happened?

[Mr. Brightside]

Sorry folks.

Nothing to see here.

Just my daughter's cookies.

Please "move" on... if you can force a "movement."

[OldFriend]

This story did come out last year. Sandy baby just in whine mode. Compared to the fate that awaits the judges in Iraq in the Saddam Hussein trials I find her whining ludicrous.

She wants everyone to stop criticizing judges because it get's people angry at them.

[STARWISE]

Sandra, just go home. Live out the rest of your days APOLITICALLY, please.

[Txsleuth]

The fact that she supposedly retired to be with her husband...and yet is on that Iraq Study Group...just chaps my rear end.

[Charles Henrickson]

Barbara Joan March . . . sent 14 threatening letters . . . each with a baked good or piece of candy laced with rat poison. . . .

Beware the bites of March!

[johnny7]

Did you hear she was on the 'Iraq Advisory Panel'?

[hoyaloya]

Odd. None of the linked articles mention a motive. Why is that?

[Anti-Bubba182]

Well at least we know the court has enough sense to not eat home baked food received in the mail from a stranger.

[Sir Gawain]

What was her DU screen name?

[GVnana]

A disgruntled Gorebot.