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To: NinoFan
Look, I understand the appeal of all this, but there is something about this woman’s story that doesn’t add up. The SCOTUS doesn’t use the secret service. The claim about the Scalia meeting could be attributed to a case of mistaken identify where she assumes his security was secret service, but here she claims that Roberts called his security a secret service agent and that she was shown a ss badge. That makes no sense.

Ummmmmm is that it. That's a small nitpick. SCOTUS fall under the protection from the United States Marshals Service, Judicial Security Division (JSD) and is easily to confuse them with the Secret Service.

59 posted on 03/14/2009 2:49:51 PM PDT by Red Steel
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To: Red Steel
"Ummmmmm is that it. That's a small nitpick. SCOTUS fall under the protection from the United States Marshals Service, Judicial Security Division (JSD) and is easily to confuse them with the Secret Service.

So, to be clear, you are taking at face value this woman's statement that she "gave a suitcase" of information to CJ Roberts about a pending case and Roberts responding "just give it to my Secret Service Agent and I promise I'll read it all."?

There is a very clear definition of ex parte communication that all judges, including the Supremes strictly adhere to. You don't think that this violates those guidelines?

Let's give her the benefit of the doubt (that's a big benefit) that this did indeed happen the way she described. Is it not equally reasonable to presume that Roberts felt this woman could have been some kind of threat and diverted her attention to his security detail? I would guess that's a much more likely scenario if she had any interaction with Roberts at all. But, to think, even for an instance, that Roberts would listen to her and make any kind of promise with respect to a pending case before the court IS CRAZY.

This kind of rabidly unintellectual and dare I say, crazy talk is what has allowed the MSM to paint conservatives with a broad brush of lunacy, unreasoned and illogical thinking the last several years.

65 posted on 03/14/2009 3:23:40 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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