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O'Connor details half-baked attempt to kill Supreme Court
CNN.com ^ | POSTED: 2028 GMT (0428 HKT), November 17, 2006 | Kevin Bohn - CNN

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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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: granniesgonewild; scotus; ussc
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To: PeterFinn

Mrs. March, it would seem, has some "issues".


101 posted on 11/19/2006 7:55:19 PM PST by Redcloak (Speak softly and wear a loud shirt.)
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To: oceanview

What a shame that Ginsberg didn't have a toll house craving that day.....hmmmmmmmm.


102 posted on 11/20/2006 6:11:33 AM PST by rippingmyhairout (Some things that make you go "hmmmmmm")
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To: PeterFinn
"...and I don't know why, (but) the staff decided to analyze them,"

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.

103 posted on 11/20/2006 8:39:34 AM PST by 7thson (I've got a seat at the big conference table! I'm gonna paint my logo on it!)
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To: PeterFinn

Loosen up, Sandy baby...you're too tight!
104 posted on 11/20/2006 2:05:30 PM PST by TampaDude (If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the PROBLEM!!!)
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To: PeterFinn
"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

Um, my hint would be that my wonderful package included a threatening letter.
105 posted on 11/20/2006 3:11:04 PM PST by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: PeterFinn

Boy, that would have given Dubya a LOT of vacancies.


106 posted on 11/21/2006 9:06:40 PM PST by TBP
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To: PeterFinn

If you want someone to eat the cookie, wouldn't you send a friendly letter rather than a threatening one?


107 posted on 11/26/2006 4:48:20 PM PST by doug from upland (Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
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To: Stultis

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.


108 posted on 11/29/2006 10:41:47 AM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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