The Long Run

[I]n the long run it is the majority who will determine what the constitutional rights of the minority are. -- William Rehnquist, 1953.

Despite his career of Republican election theft and bigotry, I take no pleasure in the fact that Chief Justice Rehnquist is apparently seriously ill with thyroid cancer. I'll also refrain from commenting upon the "cosmic bad luck" which has befallen Rehnquist.

Rehnquist's illness, however, does not excuse any of the choices he made in his life, on the bench and off, over the last 50-plus years. And those are his legacy.