Word: making
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...every time an insider quits and writes an overremunerated memoir. But the Court, now there's an intriguing world. The sex-scandal-haunted black conservative! The mysterious, John Cage-like nebbish who infuriates his Republican sponsors by going liberal on them! The plucky woman jurist coming back from cancer! Make 'em all 40 years younger and tighten up those robes and you've got ratings gold. POTUS, make room for SCOTUS...
...conservative judicial saint Robert Bork who once said that the morality of the law is framed by the legislators who make it, not the judges who interpret it. But what is the morality of Florida legislators who are rushing to enact a law so that the brother of their governor wins their state regardless of who really won the vote...
...seems to me that the various judiciaries have acquitted themselves better than any other of the dramatis personae. The candidates have been feckless and self-serving; the legislature has been reflexively partisan; only the courts and judges have actually tried to take a step back and try to make sense out of things...
...camps may divide. Of course, as always, you have to look at each question with a grain of salt: The Justices can ask any questions for any reason - strategic, intellectual, et cetera. For example, they may ask a question to redirect the line of debate, or in order to make a point to their colleagues...
...nerdishly intense proceedings, riveting in spite of the lack of video, were no less spirited or probing for the presence of microphones. The dearth of pictures did, however, leave the cable news networks that carried the hearing stretching to make the tapes visually dramatic: CNN busied up its screen with a collage including the presidential seal, a picture of tape machine reels, head shots of attorneys and Justices, closed captioning and a live shot of the SCOTUS building; MSNBC added goofy computer-generated animation that zoomed through a digital court building as they tape played, reminding us why the Sony...