Nancy, I know what you're doing. But so do Republicans.

[Hortensis]

36. Thanks for the explanation of procedure and

authority, StarfishSaver. This is obviously a significant point for those interested to understand.

My notion is that the justice, like any judge, decides any issues of law that might arise and that for the rest he's a bit like a referee accustomed to presiding over tennis matches hired to come preside over a rugby game according to the rules and procedures decided on by the rugby teams. ??

Chief Justice Rehnquist addressing the senate after the senate's acquittal of President Clinton:

''I underwent the sort of culture shock that naturally occurs when one moves from the very structured environment of the Supreme Court to what I shall call, for want of a better phrase, the more free-form environment of the Senate.''

''I leave you now a wiser, but not a sadder man. I have been impressed by the manner in which the majority leader and the minority leader have agreed on procedural rules in spite of the differences that separate their two parties on matters of substance. I have been impressed by the quality of debate in closed session on the entire question of impeachment as provided for in the Constitution.''