Thursday, March 02, 2006

Does this mean I get to sleep in class?

It has recently been reported that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, aka Big Glasses and Tight Bun, fell asleep during oral arguments the other day.

The case had to do with redistricting in the state of Texas. The Republicans redrew the political districts in what appears to be a move to shut a certain group of voters (Hispanics) out of certain districts and into new ones. (In which case it would be racial discrimination, which blah blah blah, I'm not in con law right now and you don't want to hear the explanation).

The article says:

The Supreme Court had put the Texas cases on the fast track, scheduling an unusually long two-hour afternoon session.

The subject matter was extremely technical, and near the end of the argument Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg dozed in her chair. Justices David Souter and Samuel Alito, who flank the 72-year-old, looked at her but did not give her a nudge.

First of all - "unusually long two-hour afternoon session"; how long are they usually in court in the afternoons? I have like four straight hours of class every day, you morons!

Second of all - if both Souter and Alito, who is Chief Justice, noticed, why did they just let her keep sleeping? You would think it's Alito's job to keep order in the court (because things can get pretty crazy in the Supreme Court, with all the basketball playing on the roof), so he probably should've woken her up, right?

That's it, I'm sleeping in class every day from now on.

5 comments:

ndNips said...

Ha ha! I didn't even wait for judicial precendent. I just waited for Monday.

E. Luther said...

I may have spent the past week of my life as an apartment-seeking-booze-drinking tumbleweed, and the 14ish months before that in the land of the rising sun, but I'm pretty sure Alito's not Chief Justice. Once, though, I lost a spelling bee on the word chief. cheif alito? what? cheef alito? nay. cheaf roberts, I believe.

Lizett! said...

how embarassing (embarrasing, embarasing)

Anonymous said...

Someone *has* been sleeping in con law...

Seriously, when you get to be 75 or 80 or whatever, you tend to fall asleep in your chair in the afternoon. Maybe FDR was on to something with his plan to add "helper" justices for all of them over 70. We'll revive that plan the next time a Dem is elected Prez - in like 50 years.

Anonymous said...

Thought you might get a kick out of this, it's an IRC channel version of what went down recently in the Supreme Court regarding recruiters on campuses.

Welcome to #lawschool.
Users:
[ ]lawadmin [ ]govt students lawprofs [ ]cashmoney
rotc (rotc[ ]army.mil) has entered #lawschool.
[rotc] join teh army!
[students] yuo sux0r
[lawprofs] this room isn't for you
lawadmin has set mode +b for rotc!*[ ]*.mil for #lawschool
rotc has been kicked out of #lawschool by lawadmin (dont ask dont tell is g4y)
[govt] hey that's a friend of mine
[lawadmin] stfu
[students] lol
[govt] seriusly du0d let him in
[lawadmin] no wai
[govt] yes wai
[lawadmin] he sux0rz
[govt] fine
govt has set mode +b for cashmoney!*[ ]*.gov for #lawschool
cashmoney has been kicked out of #lawschool by govt (yuo don't need this then lol)
[students] ![ ]O*([ ]#
[lawadmin] OMGWTFBBQ!
[lawprofs] 1st amendment oh noes!
[lawadmin] that bot make sure we have ops in channel
[govt] liek i care its my bot
[lawadmin] yuo are so sued!
[lawprofs] 1st amendment oh noes!
[lawprofs] 1st amendment oh noes!
[lawprofs] 1st amendment oh noes!
[lawprofs] 1st amendment oh noes!
[students] rotc wants us to become drones!
Welcome to #supcourt.
Users:
[ ] CJRobertS [ ]stev0wnd [ ]TheScalia [ ] kennedy [ ]s0ut3r
[ ]clarence [ ] gin-burg [ ]breyr [ ]0-c0n lawadmin
[clarence] I be strokin! Dat's what I be doin'!
[breyr] rofl
[stev0wnd] stfu clarence
[CJRobertS] sup lawadmin
[lawadmin] du0dz govt sux0rz
[kennedy] govt can be pretty cool la
[gin-burg] we play CS:CTF on tues nites
[0-c0n] goin afk
[TheScalia] man he sux at CTF
[TheScalia] hes a campr
[s0ut3r] wats wrong with camp?
[TheScalia] stfu mistar imminent domains!
[CJRobertS] whatd govt do?
[s0ut3r] I AM TEH IMMINENT DOMAINS!
[TheScalia] lol
[lawadmin] he kicked out his bot from channel
[s0ut3r] lol
govt (govt[ ] senate.gov) has entered #supcourt.
[TheScalia] wtf are u doin in this chan govt? where is teh chex + balancez?
[govt] i checked and balanced your mom last night
[clarence] LOL
[gin-burg] LMAO
[govt] she was awesome
[TheScalia] yuo sux
[govt] lol whatev
[govt] if they want my bot, they gotta let rotc in
[lawadmin] man rotc sux
[0-c0n] i gotta go l8r
[s0ut3r] cya
[TheScalia] bye
[stev0ned] bye
[clarence] l8r
o-c0n has left irc (retired).
[gin-burg] call me k?
l33t0 (salito[ ] supremecourt.gov) has joined #supcourt.
[l33t0] whatd i miss!
[CJRobertS] nothin rofl!
CJRobertS has set mode +o for l33t0!salito[ ] supremecourt.gov.
[l33t0] xlnt
[CJRobertS] np
[CJRobertS] so what should we do about teh problem in #lawschool?
[l33t0] i dunno wasn't here
[kennedy] let in rotc
[clarence] rotc is TEH BOMB
[TheScalia] rotc || !cashmoney
[gin-burg] rotc kix ass [ ] CTF so rotc
[s0ut3r] rotc should be in
[breyr] rotc
[stev0wnd] just /ignore rotc if yuo dont like him
[CJRobertS] so its UNAN1MOUS
[govt] xlnt
[gin-burg] that shows gonna suk
[kennedy] no wai itll rawk
[lawadmin] u guyz sux
[clarence] i hope that one du0d goes crazy and starts stabbin ppl
[CJRobertS] yuo just wanna be us
lawadmin has been kicked out of #supcourt by CJRobertS (WAPNERED!)
govt has been kicked out of #supcourt by CJRobertS (stop camping yuo fggt)
[l33t0] rofl
[gin-burg] stfu n00b