The Federalist Society congratulates itself at Union Station, and torture fan Fat Tony has the quote of the day. WaPo teabags them with A03 placement**:

Federalists Relish Well-Placed Friends

Funny, if they were so important, you'd think that Justice Roberts wouldn't have "forgotten" he was a member during his confirmation hearings. But let that pass. Fat Tony's quote:

Scalia said courts and law schools embrace the alternate view of a "living Constitution" and so too does the ordinary citizen, "who has come to believe that what he violently abhors must be unconstitutional."

"It is no easy task to wean the public, the professoriate and (especially) the judiciary away from such a seductive and judge-empowering philosophy," he said.

"Seductive and judge-empowering philosophy"?!

You mean like the kind of philosophy that allows judges to select a President with a "good for one time only" case like Bush v. Gore? Read more…

Via the always interesting Andrew Sullivan (class of 2004) this on SCROTUS Chief Justice John Roberts's recent mysterious fall:

I doubt the suggestion in the Daily News article that these seizures could be brought on by stress. The kind of stress that is required to bring on seizures is pretty rare in places like out on the golf course or on a boat dock at a vacation home. If John Roberts really is having stress-induced seizures that lead him to lose consciousness and fall down while playing golf and walking out on the dock at his oceanside vacation home, then he’s a maniac.

There is something other than stress that can induce “seizures” that make people fall down and lose consciousness: Psychoactive drugs. Remember when Britney Spears all of a sudden lost consciousness and had to be carried out of her birthday party? It wasn’t stress that caused that incident.

How do we know that Justice John Roberts isn’t losing consciousness because he’s on some kind of drug obtained by prescription or on the street?

And, as appropriate for a sitting judge on the extremely legitimate Bush Court_{MR SUBLIMINAL Bush v. Gore} there's a precedent: Read more…

What the Dover Bitch said:

George Bush said he wanted Supreme Court justices like Thomas and Scalia. It would appear now that he got a Chief Justice just like himself -- a sloganeering promise-breaker, who campaigned for himself on a puffy cloud of unity, only to take his opportunistic victory and use it to further an extremist right-wing agenda by playing loose with facts and adhering to an inconsistent application of the law.

Well, what else would we expect from a Federalist Society operative who "forgot" he was a member of the Federalist society/ Read more…

The votes, silly. Yet another split decision from the Bush Court. Read more…