Senate control could come down to Alaska. Can Republicans really refuse to certify or seat Mary Peltola if she wins? Probably not. But they sure can gum things up.
And Bush’s lead attorney in the recount battle was a well-connected young Republican lawyer named John Roberts.
Within only five years of the Brooks Brothers Riot, and with less than two years of experience on the bench as a judge, he was made CHIEF Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
O’Connor was retiring anyway, and Rehnquist was already sick, but these days I often wonder if Rehnquist wasn’t given a tiny push in the same quiet way George V had been sixty years earlier, because goddamn was that some convenient timing.
From mere attorney to Chief Justice of SCOTUS in only five years. Imagine that. “Rewarded” indeed.
And Bush’s lead attorney in the recount battle was a well-connected young Republican lawyer named John Roberts.
Within only five years of the Brooks Brothers Riot, and with less than two years of experience on the bench as a judge, he was made CHIEF Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
O’Connor was retiring anyway, and Rehnquist was already sick, but these days I often wonder if Rehnquist wasn’t given a tiny push in the same quiet way George V had been sixty years earlier, because goddamn was that some convenient timing.
From mere attorney to Chief Justice of SCOTUS in only five years. Imagine that. “Rewarded” indeed.