"Normally Picking a Justice Is Like Picking a Mistress,"

reports David Lat (Above The Law). I wouldn't know, not having picked either.

rick.felt:
Bill Clinton went for Jewish brunettes for both...
5.15.2009 5:40pm
Houston Lawyer:
I'm pretty sure that none on the final list of potential nominees would ever give me any cause to consider breaking my wedding vows.
5.15.2009 5:44pm
Perseus (mail):
Normally picking a justice is like picking a mistress: the younger the better.

Prince Charles disregarded that rule of thumb. Will President Obama?
5.15.2009 5:54pm
Ex-Fed (mail) (www):
If I were picking a mistress, I might, indeed, pick a young one. But not because I wanted her to stick around for fifty years.
5.15.2009 5:55pm
rick.felt:
Picking a justice is like picking a mistress: if Obama goes with a white one or a male one, he's going to catch all kinds of hell.
5.15.2009 5:58pm
JEN:
"I wouldn't know, not having picked either."

CLASSIC.
5.15.2009 6:04pm
rick.felt:
Picking a justice is like picking a mistress: Eventually baseball analogies will come up.
5.15.2009 6:13pm
M N Ralph:
Bill Clinton went for Jewish brunettes for both...


And both orally skilled as well.
5.15.2009 6:55pm
dmv (www):
M N Ralph:

Ew.
5.15.2009 7:01pm
Dave N (mail):
rick.felt wins the blogging equivilent of a hole-in-one: He has the very best response in the very first response.
5.15.2009 7:56pm
methodact:
Blather. Blarny. Arguably the worst analogy ever. The very history of the that court is one of prude pathology. They have betrayed the First Amendment, et. al., time and time again, in order to repress sexuality.

Those on the SCOTUS like to pretend they are The Church.

They even allowed Alabama to outlaw sex toys! That court is routinely packed with those that clamor for limited government - (yet their idea of which is to get government out of the boardrooms and into the bedrooms.)

Religion masquerading as law with its sexual repression has become so bad that other countries are actually forming political sex parties for issues around sexual rights.

The court has a long history of neglecting minority groups' rights until a member of that minority is placed on the court. A Native American deserves to be there or one of the groups the SCOTUS has routinely violated. Suicide Girls calls for Obama to pick a gay woman. Or since that minority finally achieved LAWRENCE, maybe the court needs a pedophile.

But positing the idea that a pick is like choosing a mistress ignores that the Court's particular fetish seems more aligned with dungeons.
5.15.2009 8:42pm
theobromophile (www):
<blockquote>Normally picking a justice is like picking a mistress: </blockquote>
Except that you want a potential associate Justice who is discreet before confirmation hearings and a mistress who is discreet after she becomes your associate.
5.15.2009 11:00pm
Fedya (www):
So who picks your mistresses for you? ;-)
5.15.2009 11:03pm

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