"Dean Starr," Not "Judge Starr." Roberts Get His Goat?
Posted on Wed Oct 05, 2005 at 07:56:01 PM EST
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by Last Night in Little Rock
When Kenneth Starr was running around the Arkansas and D.C. woods like a hound dog in heat looking for the non-existent goods on Clinton, he insisted that everybody address him as "Judge Starr," even though he resigned his lifetime appointment to have a better shot at the Supreme Court and then blew it by being a neo-con witchhunter. He no longer had the right to even suggest he be called "Judge," unless he wanted his wife, children, and maid to do it.
Today, as Dean of the Pepperdine Law School, he moved the admission of several lawyers into the Bar of the Supreme Court. The Chief Justice referred to him as "Dean Starr." Finally, somebody humbled the unhumbleable.
Would Rehnquist have sucked up and called him "Judge" even though he passed up a lifetime appointment for the big bucks of private practice while still nominally heading the OIC's "Whitewater" investigation? What would one expect from someone with Gilbert & Sullivan gold on his sleeves? Actually, I don't know. Rehnquist was big on tradition and decorum.
Remember when Starr was asked before a Congressional Committee whether he had actually talked to the witnesses of whom he was praising their truthtelling powers? He said "No." Am I the only one who caught that?
I was at an oral argument and he was moving in somebody's admission, as was I, and I was sitting right behind Starr with Keith Stroup from NORML. Keith and I know Webb Hubbell. We talked about Hubbell before Court started the just to bug Starr. He kept his cool.
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