Here is Slate’s story on the media ignoring O’Connor’s Georgetown University speech:
The smoke drifting out of your computer over the weekend was not the result of a fried motherboard but the scent of bloggers setting themselves on fire in response to Nina Totenberg’s NPR Morning Edition Friday, March 10, dispatch. Totenberg had attended a speech at Georgetown University given the night before by retired Supreme Court Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in which O’Connor invoked the word “dictatorship” to describe the direction the country may be headed if Republicans continue to attack the judiciary.
And here is Raw Story’s transcript of Nina Totenberg’s NPR story:
I, said O’Connor, am against judicial reforms driven by nakedly partisan reasoning. Pointing to the experiences of developing countries and former communist countries where interference with an independent judiciary has allowed dictatorship to flourish, O’Connor said we must be ever-vigilant against those who would strongarm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies. It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, she said, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.
What will it take for people to realize the stakes?