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Chief Justice Akhil Reed Amar?

It's going to come true....if Mike Gravel is elected president. Before you point out that Gravel will never win the election, please consider that biologists are making huge progress in cross breeding birds with pigs.

According to today's Yale Daily News:

In a recent interview with the News after speaking to students at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., Gravel said Amar would not only be his first choice to serve on the high court but also his first choice for the position of chief justice, should the post become vacant. ?I?d appoint him in a heartbeat,? Gravel declared. ?There?s no one who knows the Constitution better than he does.? Gravel called himself a huge fan of Amar?s 2005 book, ?America?s Constitution: A Biography.? And the one-time legislator said he was so smitten with the popular law school professor that he went out of his way to gauge whether Amar would be interested in a spot on the nation?s highest court ? provided, of course, Gravel became president.

I have a number of observations. First, I haven't heard from Mike Gravel in months. It's good to know that he is still alive. Voters in early primary states haven't noticed him either. In the CT primary, he got one one-thousandth of the vote. FYI, I got zero one-thousandths of the vote in the CT primary, so I am neck and neck with Mike Gravel.

Second, I think this might be the only sane thing that Sen. Crazypants has said this entire campaign (he supports a national sales tax and decriminalizing marijuana). Professor Amar might be an unorthodox choice for chief justice, but I think it might be a very good one. For the record, Professor Amar said he is not interested in the job.

Finally, a recent interview? Either this student journalist was too lazy to write this story in a timely fashion, or if it is really a recent story, no one has told Mike Gravel that the New Hampshire primaries have come and gone. Sadly the second explanation might be more plausible.

Full post as published by Supreme Dicta on February 07, 2008 (boomark / email).