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**MasTaBlau** · 11-13-2005, 03:06 AM

This is something I heard on NPR.

Once you are on the Supreme Court, you never have to please anyone again except yourself. You become a member of the Washington party circuit, and all the best hosts are Liberals, most of the really clever influential people you meet are Liberals, and the Supreme Court reporter for the NYT is after all writing the first draft of history. The legal scholars you meet now tend to be from Harvard and Yale, not the Muncy School of Law and Tractor Mechanics, So you are removed from the conservative influence of politics and exposed to the Liberal influence of the great centers of learning.
And you begin to see yourself in the history books, and the people who write history are for the most part liberals, so a Liberal gets a better shot in the history books than a conservative.
It's only human to want to fit in, to be liked and respected by your peers. For a Supreme Court Judge, that means fitting in to a mostly liberal world, and being liked and respected by people who are mostly Liberal.
Bottom line, would you rather party with Ted Kennedy or Karl Rove?

11-13-2005, 03:06 AM	#7
MasTaBlau Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 508 Senior Member	This is something I heard on NPR. Once you are on the Supreme Court, you never have to please anyone again except yourself. You become a member of the Washington party circuit, and all the best hosts are Liberals, most of the really clever influential people you meet are Liberals, and the Supreme Court reporter for the NYT is after all writing the first draft of history. The legal scholars you meet now tend to be from Harvard and Yale, not the Muncy School of Law and Tractor Mechanics, So you are removed from the conservative influence of politics and exposed to the Liberal influence of the great centers of learning. And you begin to see yourself in the history books, and the people who write history are for the most part liberals, so a Liberal gets a better shot in the history books than a conservative. It's only human to want to fit in, to be liked and respected by your peers. For a Supreme Court Judge, that means fitting in to a mostly liberal world, and being liked and respected by people who are mostly Liberal. Bottom line, would you rather party with Ted Kennedy or Karl Rove?
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