SUPREME COURT: I obviously don’t have time to respond to all the Supreme Court decisions in one morning. I haven’t read the decisions in question and therefore have little basis on which to discuss them (though that doesn’t stop 99.99999% of the country). Warning: if you base your opinion on news coverage you are making a mistake.

I will eagerly read Justice O’Connor’s decision to see where she found the Constitutional provision that racial preferences are okay until the year 2028, when they might not be.

CHUCKIE S. GETS A PASS: New York Republicans are throwing in the towel in the 2004 Senate race against Chuck Schumer, one of the most noxious politicians out there. Why? They figure it might help Bush by keeping Democrats from getting riled up. Good strategy, boys!

I’M BACK: What a week to be gone: the week the Supreme Court issues its blockbuster decisions. I was relieved to see, however, that we need no longer worry about the Supreme Court if Dick Gephardt becomes President. We have his word that he will, and I quote, “do executive orders to overcome any wrong thing the Supreme Court does.” See here for details.

I breathlessly await my liberal readers’ fierce denunciation of this ridiculous statement, just as they would do if Bush had said it.

MICHAEL MOORE’S LIES: Here is a nice summary of the lies in Michael Moore’s Oscar-winning piece of dung “Bowling for Columbine.” Even the Brits are on to him.

IMPEACH BOYCE MARTIN: Who? Read this opinion piece and find out. Or, if you’re too damn lazy to click on the link (likely), I’ll just tell you: he’s the judge who fixed the Michigan affirmative action case. As the piece demonstrates, he manipulated the system in many different ways to get a result favoring affirmative action. For example, he circumvented the random appointment process to get himself put on the case (something that observers often suspect Stephen Reinhardt of doing). Also, he waited five months to notify the rest of the court of a petition for en banc rehearing — just long enough for two conservative judges to take senior status and make themselves ineligible to sit on the rehearing panel, which made all the difference.

“Martin insists that he has been falsely accused. ‘I’m royally shafted,’ he told The Associated Press. ‘It’s like poor Sammy Sosa. I never had a corked bat before, and I don’t think I had one here.’”

Uh, Sammy Sosa definitely had a corked bat, dude. I think it’s definitely like Sammy Sosa. And I think your bat just broke.

SUPREME COURT SECRECY: It always seems like there are a million leaks from places like the White House and the Pentagon. Maybe these folks should take a cue from the Supreme Court. OK, sure, books like The Brethren have featured insider looks at the Court. But consider this: there are still ten decisions yet to be announced at the Court, including the Michigan affirmative action case and the homosexual sodomy case. But these cases have long since been decided — and even if you don’t count the Justices themselves, there are dozens of people who know not only the outcomes, but who voted which way. Yet this sort of thing never seems to be leaked. Not even the Bush v. Gore decision was leaked ahead of time. Given the significance of these cases, I think that’s pretty amazing.