Tony Mauro has found something amusing in the files of former Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun: the program from the Supreme Court’s October Term 1995 law clerk show. As Mauro writes, “[e]very June, with the justices in the audience, the clerks put on skits and sing songs, some of which boldly poke fun at their bosses.” The program Mauro found includes the lyrics to at least one song, sung to the tune of the Beatles’ “Eleanor Rigby”:
Ah, look at all the strange appointments.
Ah, look at all the strange appointments.Ruth Bader Ginsburg,
Strolls into work every day ’bout a quarter past three.
Thinks we don’t see.Stephen G. Breyer,
Gave 50 speeches last year.
If they asked him, he came.
They were all the same.(Refrain)
Crazy nominations.
Where did they all come from?
Senate confirmations.
What were we thinking of?David H. Souter.
Cutting and pasting all night.
When there’s nobody there.
He doesn’t care.
Look at him working.
Writing those endless dissents that nobody will heed.
And no one can read.Sandra O’Connor.
Votes with the left, then the right.
So that nobody knows
How the wind blows.Nino Scalia
No one will join his invective and hyperbole.
Except for CT [Clarence Thomas].
To borrow Glenn‘s line: Heh.
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