Petition to Save These United States from Drug-Addled Supreme Court Justices

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Saturday May 02, 2009 · 5:33 PM PDT

2009/05/02 · 17:33

This piece was provoked by the Supreme Court's appalling behavior during oral argument in Safford v. Redding. It was also inspired by Dahlia Lithwick's wonderful piece in Slate entitled "Search Me." Safford involves the strip-search of a 13-year-old girl during her school day, a search authorized by officials at Safford Middle School in Safford, Arizona. The search was based on the unsubstantiated claim by another student that Ms. Redding possessed extra-strengh Tylenol. Ms. Redding was, of course, sitting in the audience of the burgundy-draped, gold-trimmed courtroom, so she was humiliated all over again, this time by the august body we now ironically call the Supreme Court. Too bad one of these clowns isn't retiring instead of Souter.

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