Souter smacks the Solicitor General, ok wagged his finger at:

The SCOTUS began hearings on OBL's former drivers case involving his contestation of being tried by a military tribunal.

At least five justices -- Stephen G. Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Anthony M. Kennedy, David H. Souter and John Paul Stevens -- appeared ready to reject the administration's argument that the Detainee Treatment Act, passed and signed into law after the court accepted the case in November, had stripped the court of jurisdiction.

The Solicitor General, Paul D. Clement, performing the odious duty of defending Bushco's position, was a tad underwhelming it seems, especially in the eyes of one Justice David Souter.

Solicitor General Paul D. Clement was on the defensive throughout his argument. His stolid refusal to concede that any of the government's positions, on the jurisdictional as well as ultimate questions of the case, might present even theoretical problems provoked the normally soft-spoken Justice Souter into an outburst of anger.

Anger?  You bet.  Flames bursting forth from pulsing orbital sockets!  Veins bulging to the stroke point.  Fists balled into ironhard mallets of justice!  His voice a low rumble of barely controlled hate and rage!  "Timeout" the trembling Souter could be heard to mutter over and over.  And then:

"Now wait a minute!" Justice Souter interrupted, waving a finger.

TAKE THAT Paul D. Clement.  That's right you have just been Soutered!  How does it feel Mr. Fancy Pants?  How does that feel?  Sake's alive if this were SCOTUS Deathmatch Paul, your claymation self would be nothing more than a quivering mass of uncoalesced silty gelatinous material.  

For the full story click the following link button which will postscript this fine and utterly pathetic attempt at a humorous sentence that if I really wanted to I could runon for several more paragraphs but what purpose, I ask, would that serve so punctuation and grammatical mistakes notwithstanding, I give you, without further adieu, with no more gilding of the lily the linky to NY Times

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Thank you and have a great tomorrow.