From the lighter side...

There's a hilarious piece of satire making its way around the Internet, courtesy of legal correspondent Dahlia Lithwick, who is the best in cyberspace. It seems the nine Supreme Court justices were having a little disagreement over where to take a group of distinguished Irish judges for lunch. It starts like this:

From: EvenStevens@ scotus.gov

To: Supremelist@ scotus.gov

Date: May 24, 2005

RE: Lunch??

Colleagues: Where should we take these Irish judges to lunch next week? Suggestions?

Cordially

JPS

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From: QueenBee@ scotus.gov

To: Supremelist@ scotus.gov

Date: May 24, 2005

RE: RE: Lunch??

I can't say yet. Why don't you all weigh in and I'll cast the deciding vote?

Tee hee.

Sandy

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From: ClarenceT@ scotus.gov

To: Supremelist@ scotus.gov

Date: May 24, 2005

RE: Out of Office AutoResponse

I am out of the office until June 7, 2005, on a seven-state NASCAR tour in my vast converted tour bus. Please refer any constitutional questions you may have in the interim to the Framers.

Clarence

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From: SwingVote@ scotus.gov

To: Supremelist@ scotus.gov

Date: May 24, 2005

RE: RE: RE: Lunch??

How about one of Café Berlin, Bistro Bis, or La Coline? Bien sur, the bouillabaisse at the latter is magnifique.

Best,

"Antoine" Kennedy

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From: NinoNoir@ scotus.gov

To: SwingVote@ scotus.gov; Supremelist@ scotus.gov

Date: May 24, 2005

RE: With the Frenchie Crap again!!??!

You swishy little Euro-wimp. What the heck is wrong with American restaurants? Are we really going to bind ourselves, yet again, by what a bunch of foreigners would do? This is an American court, operating on American soil, under the provisions of an American constitution. The very idea of entertaining Irish visitors next week at all is evidence of the shallow, faddish, follow-the-crowd internationalism threatening the core foundations of American Constitutionalism today.

I vote for Applebee's in Chevy Chase. The one with the onion flowers.

Nino

To read the whole thing go here.