White House lends a hand to Anna Nicole

MSNBC ^ | December 26, 2005 | Associated Press

[MississippiMasterpiece]

WASHINGTON - Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith has an unusual bedfellow in the Supreme Court fight over her late husband’s fortune: the Bush administration.

The administration’s top Supreme Court lawyer filed arguments on Smith’s behalf and wants to take part when the case is argued before the justices.

The court will decide early next year whether to let the U.S. solicitor general share time with Smith’s attorney during the one hour argument on Feb. 28.

Smith, a television reality star and native Texan, plans to attend the court argument.

She is trying to collect millions of dollars from the estate of J. Howard Marshall II, the oil tycoon she married in 1994 when he was 89 and she was a 26-year-old topless dancer in Houston. Marshall died in 1995.

Like Marshall, President Bush was a Texas oil man. Both attended Yale. Both held government positions in Washington.

There are differences. Marshall had a penchant for strippers, and the court record before the justices is one of poverty, greed, sex and family rivalry.

In and out of courts A federal bankruptcy judge sided with Smith in the fight over her late husband’s estate, awarding her $474 million. That was reduced to about $89 million by a federal district judge, then thrown out altogether by a federal appeals court.

The issue before the high court is one only lawyers would love: when may federal courts hear claims that involve state probate proceedings. Smith lost in Texas state courts, which found that E. Pierce Marshall was the sole heir to his father’s estate.

The Bush administration’s filings in the case are technical. Without getting into the details of the family squabble, Solicitor General Paul Clement said that the justices should protect federal court jurisdiction in disputes.

[Polybius]

The issue before the high court is one only lawyers would love: when may federal courts hear claims that involve state probate proceedings. The Bush administration’s filings in the case are technical.

Don't you just love the Bush-bashing teaser headline? < /sarcasm>

[Cicero]

Not to mention the opening sentence:

Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith has an unusual bedfellow in the Supreme Court fight over her late husband’s fortune: the Bush administration.

[Mears]

God I wish this woman would go away!

[mcg1969]

I'm sure Clinton would have loved for this one to be moving through the courts on his watch! Heck, he'd have argued the State's case before the SCOTUS himself! (At least if he could have, um, met Anna Nicole as a result)

[Enterprise]

The old guy married her for "technical" reasons.

[x]

They also advised her to get it off her chest and make a clean breast of things.

[najida]

Yeah,
Technically those boobs aren't hers.

BTW, my Mom (the original Church Lady) thought Anna Nicole was entitled to the money. "He married her for his reasons and she married him for hers.....his kids should just duck out of it".

[beckett]

Feeling a bit masochistic one day, I watched a CourtTV special on Smith's travails. A more repulsive person is hard to imagine. She's everything sleazy and trashy about the female persuasion, and a transparent liar. No fairminded judge could possibly believe she genuinely loved her husband, or that her husband, a highly trained, brilliant attorney, college professor and businessman, didn't know what he was doing when he cut her out of his will.

She got over six million out of the guy for a few months work. She deserves not a penny more.

[Triggerhippie]

Most-expensive-hooker-of-all-time ping.

[Triggerhippie]

Not counting John F'n Kerry, of course.

[cbkaty]

Wasn't this a few thousand Big Macks ago.....

[cbkaty]

Someone please hit the abuse button!!!!!!

[reagan_fanatic]

Good God, man! Have some mercy!

[Ditter]

That's the way I feel too. She was his lawful wife and is entitled to inherit his estate or at least half of it. That doesn't mean that I approve of Anna Nicole or her life style. I'm a church lady type myself.

BTW did anyone notice the back handed slap to President Bush's home state? The words "stripper and native Texan" used to describe ANS. Like Texas is the only state that spawns sluts. Sure!

[Enterprise]

She ballooned up quite a bit. The latest pictures I have seen of her have her back down to "normal" size.

[cbkaty]

BTW did anyone notice the back handed slap to President Bush's home state?

Yep! Anna is a Californian from her size 24 feet to her bulbous waist, to her sto-bought-tits....and Waller County melon-sized head-mouth that never has "uddered" a word of intelligence.

Native Texican here....We are used to the cowboy, idiot, slut, oil tycoon, cattle rancher, grease monkey, slack-jawed southerner descriptions.....lived with it all....

[Reaganez]

Why posting photoshopped non-sense?

[Ditter]

Well, which are you a Texian or a Texican? There is a difference ya know.

BTW you forgot "all hat and no cattle".

[bigsigh]

I think technically 40% of the boobs are hers. 60% goes to the rest of his family.