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...devastating, one of the worst espionage cases we've seen, and not just because of the irony. The headlines so far are all about Aldrich Ames and Felix Bloch, and the microphone at the State Department - which he wasn't involved in - but the damage goes far beyond that...
After a winter recess spent recovering from their crawl through what Felix Frankfurter called the "political thicket," the nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court are finally back to the kind of work whose national importance is a bit more theoretical...
...Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law has worked under a tight deadline before...
...make up and adhere to in order to make everything run smoothly. April 15, tax day, is just a date on the calendar; there's no reason it couldn't be April 1 or May 1. It's arbitrary, and arbitrariness is not all bad. (It was Justice Felix Frankfurter who said, "If you can't be fair, be arbitrary," and the U.S. Supreme Court seems to have followed his advice...
...This was Felix Frankfurter's "political thicket," of course, and Chief Justice Rehnquist, with the majority quill, will no doubt be accused of creating his own "safe harbor" for retirement. He got rid of this mess just the way Bush wanted him to, shrugging his shoulders and declaring that it wasn't going to get any better from here. He made life easy for the half-cocked Florida Republicans, patting them on the back and easing them back into their seats. He also came to the very reasonable conclusion that Florida's election apparatus would not bear...