Does anybody else feel like Rehnquist was "taken out"...

[rndmprsn]

to make room for Roberts as Chief Justice?

Old news i know, but should i take off the tin foil hat or is there fire/smoke here?

[blogslut]

1. He was a miilion years old!

Put the tinfoil to the side and put on your thinking cap.

[rndmprsn]

7. true enough...

but at this point i trust NOTHING about this admin and SUSPECT everything, but yeah even i felt the weight of the tin-hat on this one.

[Deep13]

2. Honestly no.

He was old and sick and had been on the court since Nixon was in office. If they were going to murder someone, it would have been Stevens.

[SteppingRazor]

3. Um ... no.

First, the Bush administration may do a lot of bad things, but I don't think they cause cancer.

Also, it's not as if Rehnquist was a flaming liberal — he was nominated by Nixon, for God's sake. Even supposing the Bush administration was in the habit of offing Supreme Court justices (a deeply, deeply tinfoily thing to wrap one's brain around in the first place), why Rehnquist? Why not Ginsberg, Breyer or Stevens?

[Nye Bevan]

4. Definitely.

And I am convinced that this is linked in some way to the assassination of Princess Di.

[napi21]

5. NO! He was VERY OLD and as always happens, old people get

sick and die!

[LeftishBrit]

6. Very unlikely!

(a) He was over 80 and known to have cancer, so his death was hardly terribly unexpected.

(b) If someone wanted to 'take out' a justice to replace with a right-winger, why would they choose Rehnquist and not one of the liberal or moderate judges? He was just as right-wing as Roberts, so far as I know, so this would not make sense.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

10. he was injected with a radioactive little pill about 30 years ago

that was time-release scheduled to kill him at just the right moment...they were planning on this from the time Roberts was in his 20's...

OPEN YOUR EYES, PEOPLE!
sP

[bdamomma]

8. No the man was ill,

[juajen]

14. The man was certainly ill; so, they just rushed it up a bit.

Perfect crime actually. He could have lasted longer. He was a stubborn old coot and did have some principles left, though he was a pug. I don't believe he liked the * Administration and was in their way. Look at the comments. People can last a long time with cancer, and they wanted their guy in fast.

[npincus]

9. "taken out" by the Grim Reaper

"Time's up, Dude!"

[ProdigalJunkMail]

11. The Reaper is a pubbie...right?

that's what I thought

sP

[H2O Man]

12. And Ladybird

to make way for Pickles?

[juajen]

13. Yes, I have felt that he was taken out.

I also believe that O'Conner was forced out and that her excessive tears over Renquist's death were because of her sorrow for her country. She knows a lot.