i hope your IM friends are wrong, but just in case:
Edith "Mullah" Jones
Year of birth: 1949
Previous Jobs: bankruptcy lawyer; United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Good news for Big Business: doesn't think people should be able to sue companies for discrimination, doesn't like lawsuits.
Good news for people who hate freedom:
-ruled to put to death a man whose lawyer slept through his trial ("In sum, on this record, we cannot determine whether Cannon slept during a 'critical stage' of Burdine's trial.")
-against affirmative action
-this little Taliban ditty:
The integrity of law, its religious roots, its transcendent quality are disappearing. The first 100 years of American lawyers were trained on Blackstone, who wrote that: 'The law of nature, dictated by God himself, is binding in all counties and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this; and such of them as are valid derive all force and all their authority, from this original.' The Framers created a government of limited power with this understanding of the rule of law - that it was dependent on transcendent religious obligation...

It is my fervent hope that this new century will experience a revival of the original [Biblical] understanding of the rule of law and its roots...

Note that she's not bright enough to come up with her own theocratic bullshit. She also cited the movie "Chicago."

She called it "unchristian" to win at any cost (fine), but was citing Kenneth Starr of all people. $10 million to get a guy for lying about a b.j.

She said judicial nominees should be above the law, scoffing that they would be asked if the people working for them a legal residents of this country.

When Jones says "the rule of law," she means the Fourth Branch of Government in the Sky, the All Powerful One.
Good news for normal people: there is none.

This is awesome, thanks Jami. I just got back from picking up the kids and running errands. I have to do dinner now but will look snoop around more too. I wish I had Lexis-Nexis!