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...Bush camp kept well out of the fray before and during the announcement, only releasing a brief statement after Chavez stepped offstage. "Linda is a good person with a great deal of compassion. I am disappointed that Linda Chavez will not become our nation's secretary of labor," read the statement from the President-elect. Asked if Bush had asked for her resignation, Chavez answered quickly. "At no time was I ever asked by the campaign to withdraw my name...
...Supreme Court, like the Wizard of Oz, augments its authority by working its magic out of sight. Toiling away in their neoclassical palace, the nine Justices are perceived as being above the fray and primly cut off from everyday life. (Which is why, reportedly, former Washington Redskins fullback John Riggins once accosted Sandra Day O'Connor at a Washington dinner party and urged, "Come on, Sandy baby, loosen up.") But during this case, it became clear that the Justices are not as insulated as we like to believe. Clarence Thomas' wife draws a paycheck from the conservative Heritage Foundation, where...
...that war chest to gobble up strategic chunks of the worldwide filmmaking and distribution industry, and many of those chunks are shriveling rapidly. Companies with names like Intertainment and Helkon Media ran rings around established German players like Kirch Media and Bertelsmann, which, perhaps wisely, stayed out of the fray. An additional $1 billion flowed into German film-production funds, which raise money from private investors for specific efforts like Mission: Impossible 2, which got $100 million from German sources...
However, even before the court hears the appeal, it has damaged its reputation, perhaps irreparably, in two ways. First, it has decided to enter a political fray that did not require its action and which, by any understanding of judicial restraint, could have been left to the other electoral safeguards available. If, as Scalia hinted, the court decides this case in Bush's favor on a 5-4 vote, the reputation of the court as a rational, nonpartisan voice above the fray will have been destroyed. It is ironic that the five justices in favor of the stay are traditional...
...over their head. "I got a call from one attorney who wanted to file an injunction but had never done it," Rogow said. "I told him if he was too stupid to know what an injunction looked like, he was too stupid to be involved in this fray...