World Wrestling Entertainment is in a public feud with Glenn Beck. (Remember him?)
TPM Reader JO remembers Archibald Cox’s recollection of Robert Bork’s role in the Saturday Night Massacre, one of fabled moments of the Watergate drama …
The Bork story reminds me of a story Archibald Cox told an undergraduate class on Constitutional Law that I was lucky enough to take about 30 years ago. In the unit on executive privilege, Cox told us about the Saturday Night Massacre from his unique perspective — not only as the Special Prosecutor Bork fired, but as the law school professor whose former students refused to fire him. Here’s how I recall the way he told the story (not verbatim, but it captures the essence of it):
It hasn’t gotten a lot of play. But when President Obama appears this afternoon at the Newport News shipbuilding yard he’ll be there with Republican Rep. Scott Rigell (R-VA). Under ordinary circumstances, it’s not uncommon to appear with a President of the opposite party when he appears in your district. But it strikes me as a pretty big deal in the midst of such a charged partisan standoff.
British Cardinal who resigned over ‘inappropriate acts’ with priests was harsh foe of gay rights, marriage equality.