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p> GIRLIE TURLEY br> Re: George Neumayr's J'Recuse : /p>

We note with amusement the proposition of Professor Turley to the effect that Justice Roberts's "Catholicism" somehow disqualifies him as being capable of interpreting the Constitution. ("It was the first unscripted answer in the most carefully scripted nomination in history," writes Turley. "It was also the wrong answer. In taking office, a justice takes an oath to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States.")

With such as the basic predicate, would not the same "affliction," likewise and with equal force, disqualify Senators Durbin, Biden, Leahy and Kennedy from serving in the Congress? Were the Professor's observations -- observations proffered about a subject wherein his education, knowledge and understanding is obviously deficient -- not such a pathetic display of abject ignorance, they might even be humorous.

p>When one reads such unvarnished tripe, one can only recall the words of the Immortal Bard who, through the personage of Macbeth, suggested (undoubtedly with the Turleys of the universe in mind) that such utterances are nothing short of "A tale told by an idiot...full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." br> -- Seamus Muldoon br> Boston, Massachusetts /p> p> I think Sen. Durbin's office now says that Judge Roberts did not

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