Repercussions

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR2006051000929.html

"Appeals court Judge J. Michael Luttig, a leading conservative jurist and a short-list Bush administration candidate for the Supreme Court, announced today that he is resigning from the bench to serve as senior vice president and general counsel of the Boeing Co."

My boy J. is resigning because he has two kids approaching college age and needs money, the article implies. And judges must avoid lucrative whoring.

"Federal appeals court judges earn $171,800 per year and generally must avoid any lucrative outside activity. Vice presidents and general counsels for huge corporations may earn anywhere from a quarter million dollars to several million, including various non-salary forms of compensation."

IN MY OPINION, Luttig got scared because of recent exposes in Salon and at the Center for Investigative Journalism that caught a coupla judges with their robes down, ew gross, documented judges who unethically presided on cases involving parties they are invested in. Luttig knows he can't get away with it, because the guardians of the disinherited, yes -- journalists, will be on his ass in 2.4 seconds. And don't even give this knucklehead credit for his impotent questioning of President Bush's wartime authority. He took us 500 steps back, and half a pretend hokey pokey step forward. Dick.

Anyways, is it just me, or is it frightening how easy his jump from potential Supreme Courter to a Boeing executive appears? I think everyone agrees that the corporations set our country's agenda and dictate in large measure the interpration of our laws, but does he have to make it so obvious? Dick.