The secret to naming a Supreme Court justice
Satire
What's in a name? Apparently a lot when it comes to the Bush Administration's nomination to the Supreme Court. Verbal Jazz has discovered, through a highly placed White House Source (and one that I would not go to jail for, mind you), that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was chosen not because of his conservative values, or superb legal acumen. John Roberts was chosen because his name is sufficiently bland.
In choosing the nominee, the White House worked tirelessly to avoid picking a name that stands out like, say, Thurgood Marshall or Antonin Scalia. The reasoning behind this decision is simple: Americans are more ready to rally behind a nominee with an average sounding name rather than a nominee, like Miguel Estrada.
The Reagan administration also played the name game in nominating Anthony Kennedy seeing that Kennedy is a good liberal sounding name. Somehow, the Bush administration could not stomach the idea of Justice Clinton, even if it was not Hilary on the bench.
Moral of the story? If you want reach the bench, you best start our with a dull name. |
What's in a name? Apparently a lot when it comes to the Bush Administration's nomination to the Supreme Court. Verbal Jazz has discovered, through a highly placed White House Source (and one that I would not go to jail for, mind you), that Supreme Court nominee John Roberts was chosen not because of his conservative values, or superb legal acumen. John Roberts was chosen because his name is sufficiently bland.
In choosing the nominee, the White House worked tirelessly to avoid picking a name that stands out like, say, Thurgood Marshall or Antonin Scalia. The reasoning behind this decision is simple: Americans are more ready to rally behind a nominee with an average sounding name rather than a nominee, like Miguel Estrada.
The Reagan administration also played the name game in nominating Anthony Kennedy seeing that Kennedy is a good liberal sounding name. Somehow, the Bush administration could not stomach the idea of Justice Clinton, even if it was not Hilary on the bench.
Moral of the story? If you want reach the bench, you best start our with a dull name. |
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