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I think there are many who think of judges as politicians in robes. In many states, that’s what they are … They seem to think judges should be a reflex of the popular will.
— Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, making “a plea for preserving the impartiality and independence of the American judicial system,” the Chicago Tribune reports.
$3 million
Amount of deal Leon Panetta, the former defense secretary and director of the Central Intelligence Agency, has struck to write a memoir, the New York Times reports. Said Panetta: “I have seen Washington at its best and at its worst. My goal is to give readers the opportunity to go behind the scenes and learn the lessons of how our democracy works, and sometimes how it fails to work.”
138 pages
Length of Mitt Romney’s transition organization’s report detailing how it had prepared for a potential Romney victory in the 2012 presidential election, Time reports. “It is the product of a team of nearly 500, who labored in Washington and around the country to be ready to help Romney assume the reins of power on January 20th, 2013, in accordance with the Pre-Election Presidential Transition Act of 2010.”
To screw up a U.S. Senate special election isn’t a theory for us. We’ve done it, so nobody is taking anything for granted.
— Massachusetts Democratic Party chairman John Walsh, quoted by the Boston Globe.
