[lit-ideas] was that a slap in the kisser?

Friends, I need your help. No doubt I missed some fundamental step in the 
controversial issue of Bush's Supreme Court nominee, John Roberts. As I 
recall, John Roberts's judicial career was rather scanty, and so Dems were 
sending out petitions asking fellow Dems to file a request through FOIA to 
let Congress and the little people see John Roberts's opinions.

Then, suddenly--or so it seems to me--John Roberts was no longer Bush's 
nominee as Sandra Day O'Connor's replacement, but Bush's nominee for CHIEF 
justice.

Am I mistaken in assuming that the chief justice is a more important and 
traditionally more significant role that that of a regular ol' lifetime 
bench-sitting Supreme Court justice? And am I mistaken in thinking that when 
Bush upped the ante, he was slapping Congress in the face? ("You dare 
question my nominees? Take THAT!")

Was this discussed anywhere? Suddenly, or so it seemed, my lefty legislative 
connections stopped e-mailing me about that FOIA request. Instead, John 
Roberts--shades of Tim Robbins' _Bob Roberts_--was voted in as chief justice 
of the US Supreme Court. I keep looking for commentary by pundits, but nada.

Did I miss something? Is this all a joke?
Carol,
stymied in Fresno



 


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