I particularly enjoyed this from the piece:
This source noted that JGR would sooner die — literally — than give Obama the chance to appoint his successor.
Amazing how rumors can spread.
parsy
Amazing how rumors can spread.
parsy
Is this another reason to dislike Gtown? As if we needed one.
This was Orson Wellian for a while there
WHEN OH WHEN will the aging hippies give up their academic posts and leave the world alone???????????????
Back in the mid-1980s, a university near where I lived (NYC bedroom community) saw a similar situation.
Professor was teaching a media/mass-communication class and tasked his students with a group project to get local news outlets to run a story. What the story was, didn’t really matter.
A student team went out and formed a student group called “Students for Nuclear War Now”. Based on the premise that 40 years of unused nuclear weapons and technology represented a very poor ROI and imploring President Reagan to put them to good use against the godless Commies.
They somehow managed to get ~1500 names on their membership roll, making them the second largest student organization on campus after the Catholic Students Association. Then they decided to hold a rally, putting out press releases to just about all the news outlets in the tri-state area.
Result: they had not only the local and state media show up to cover their rally, they actually had news crews from the major NYC stations.
I suspected all along this was false because of who they chose to report. Had it been a more tenured justice, it would have been more believable but Roberts and Alito “just got there” in terms of arriving at the Court so they’d make the least sense in wanting to step down.
IOW, if you want to start a rumor that you don’t want seriously believed, you pick the unlikeliest of candidates for it to be true - like Phyllis Schafly coming out as a lesbian (note to any dimwits - that’s not true. I’m just making an absurd example) so it would set off the b.s. meter of most thinking people.
If the prof wanted to make the rumor believable, he’d have picked on Thomas or Scalia.
Tomorrow’s class should be most interesting!
Good man.
I’m waiting for someone to say it doesn’t matter because ...
“Roberts is just another RINO and there’s not a lick of difference between Roberts and Ginsburg”
My first thought was, “this is a hoax.” I don’t believe anything the first time I read it anymore, even on FR.
Here's an account of what went down in Professor Peter Tague's criminal law class this morning, from a 1L at Georgetown LawThanks OldDeckHand.
If true, I think that Chief Justice Roberts should call the prof and give him a “Well played sir!”
Where did it come from? Probably from the same “Government Motors” CEO in the White House behind the attempt to blackmail Toyota into hiring his UAW cronies.
So you act like an idiot to show what harm idiots can do? There are other ways to teach this.
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Obama dodged a bullet on this one. Another half hour before the rumor was debunked and he would have announced Chief Justice Roberts’ replacement.
A rumor goes out to the world this morning and by night it's tracked down and disassembled.
Nice.