Loosen up, Sandy baby...you're too tight!
Posted on 11/17/2006 2:50:00 PM PST by 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."
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Mrs. March, it would seem, has some "issues".
What a shame that Ginsberg didn't have a toll house craving that day.....hmmmmmmmm.
This is a telling statement. I bet everything that comes into the Supreme Court is analyzed, especially after 9/11. To admit that she does not know is evidence that she is extremely out of touch.
Boy, that would have given Dubya a LOT of vacancies.
If you want someone to eat the cookie, wouldn't you send a friendly letter rather than a threatening one?
Sounds like some context is missing here. I don't imagine unsolicited packages of cookies would ever be forwarded on from the SC mailroom to a justice (or anyone else). However, in most cases, such things probably just get thrown out if they haven't set off the Geiger counters or explosive-sniffing dogs. That's the alternative course that O'Connor is mentioning she "isn't sure why" wasn't taken.
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