Next SCOTUS Justice: Who Should It Be?

[SoxFan]

Poll question: Next SCOTUS Justice: Who Should It Be?

We need someone who can meet the towering intellectual standards of the Senate Republicans. Who should it be?

[Sebastian Doyle]

1. Mike Judge.

Then I want to see Beavis & Butthead replacing Scalia & Thomas. And Hank Hill & Dale Gribble replacing Opie Roberts & Sammy the Fish.

[SoxFan]

3. Dale Gribble has his own legal troubles

Texan.

Right Wing nut.

Exterminator.

Who else could it be?

[depakid]

2. ...

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[depakid]

5. Not that folks would recognize any of the jurists above

They came from a place/time when "Supreme Court JUSTICE " meant something more...

(The Brandeis image an Andy Warhol- hadn't seen that one before :) ).

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Judge Reinhold! Bwahahahaha!

[FSogol]

6. Can we clone Clarence Darrow? n/t

[depakid]

7. We'd be better off cloning Earl Rogers

"Perhaps the most famous lawyer-client disagreements recorded in legal lore were the ones which developed between Clarence Darrow, indicted for attempted jury bribery in Los Angeles in 1912, and his chief counsel, legendary Los Angeles criminal lawyer Earl Rogers.

The case arose out of Darrow’s defense of the McNamara brothers, labor leaders who were indicted in the 1910 dynamiting of the Los Angeles Times building in which 21 Times non-union employees were killed. Since the Times was widely considered as the most anti-labor newspaper in the country, it was universally suspected that factions in organized labor were behind the bombing. Eventually the McNamara brothers were indicted and Clarence Darrow was brought in to defend the case.

The case gripped the attention of the entire nation. Before the McNamara brothers could plead guilty, however, Darrow himself was indicted by the Los Angeles District Attorney for allegedly attempting to bribe a juror. Darrow ultimately hired famed Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer Earl Rogers as his chief counsel. When the case went to trial, however, Darrow frequently disagreed with his attorney over how the case should be tried.

According to the account of Adela Rogers St. Johns, Earl Rogers’ daughter, much of her father’s energy during the trial was given over to trying to convince Darrow and his wife to accept his views on how to try the case. “e had an almost daily row over Darrow’s courtroom behavior and continual scraps about the three lines of defense and which came first so that a lot of the time my father was as restless as a .400 hitter benched in the World Series.” “The drive it took for my father to control Darrow’s desire and insistance (sic) that the defense rest entirely on the conspiracy-frame-up basis was mounting into hot or icy quarrels.”

“On several occasions Rogers threatened to quit him flat if he persisted in some course that Earl believed was wrong.” Significantly, Rogers was successful in getting Darrow, the great champion of organized labor, to refrain from making an argument essentially condoning the dynamiting of the Times building and the killing of 21 innocent people. Rogers and Darrow ultimately split closing argument duties. Rogers’s short summary of the evidence was business-like and to the point, emphasizing his own theory of the case that Darrow was too smart to have been involved in a bribery scheme and that he would not in any event have knowingly run across the street at the scene of the bribery and thus draw attention to his presence at the scene of the crime.

Rogers gave particular attention to the report of a prosecution witness that Darrow had run across the street waving his hat. “ pranced into the corner and took his own elegant off the rack and began to wave it frantically. We saw it. Plainly. This was to be the visual, pictorial, unbelievable thing a man could not do if he was guilty, re-enacted before the jury.” After all was said and done,

Darrow was acquitted in short order after a three-month trial. However, he was later indicted for allegedly attempting to bribe another juror in the McNamara brothers’ case. Earl Rogers began the second case as lead counsel but was soon forced to withdraw from the case due to health reasons. The second bribery trial ended in a hung jury, with several jurors holding out for a conviction. Rogers’ biographers have speculated that Rogers’ continued presence in the case might have controlled Darrow enough to produce a second acquittal.

More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Rogers

[depakid]

11. Kick

:dem:

Anone interested in their own laws and the people who wrangle with and interpret them?

[cascadiance]

8. Left out Christopher Judge

... or Roy Bean

[depakid]

9. Christopher Judge is an Oregon Duck

Douglas Christopher Judge (born October 13, 1964) is an American actor of African American and Cherokee Native descent. He attended the University of Oregon on a football scholarship, and was a Pacific Ten Conference player. Judge is best known for playing Teal'c in Stargate SG-1, and has done voice acting for animated series and video games.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Judge

[tammywammy]

10. Marilyn Milian!!!