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Get Well Soon, Chief Justice Roberts

Posted on: August 1, 2007 9:16 AM, by Ed Brayton

As I'm sure you all know by now, Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a seizure yesterday. Doctors ran a series of tests and quickly said that there is nothing life threatening going on and he will be fine. I certainly send my best wishes to the Chief Justice for a quick and full recovery.

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What puzzled me about the incident was that some folks were asking whether the President knew about his previous (isolated) seizure when nominating him for the Court, as though that would somehow disqualify him for the position.

Posted by: Squiddhartha | August 1, 2007 9:34 AM

Disqualified? Whaever for? Just because there's something wrong with his brain?

Posted by: Tegumai Bopsulai, FCD | August 1, 2007 12:10 PM

CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN ROBERTS BITCH SLAPPED BY GOD

"It is but a brush by hand of the Sun of God mocking his title as the Chief Justice and, too, His slight against the nation heralding herself as the greatest and most powerful nation on the planet," Yacub 7 Ali Prime Minister & national spokesman Lucifer Nigaros said. "Neither is he the Chief Justice of anything or this nation the greatest or most powerful."

I have to agree!

Posted by: Spelman Goody | August 1, 2007 1:08 PM

I must admit I don't. I'm not sitting here wishing he would die, but I can't wish him a full recovery either. So I'm letting him alone.

Posted by: The Ridger | August 1, 2007 1:25 PM

Is it wrong to hope that his siezures give him a religious expreience in 1 - 2 years that results in him leaving SCOTUS after Bush leaves office?

Yes, its unrealistic, but I can dream.

Posted by: Robert | August 1, 2007 2:13 PM

Wow. It takes a lot of hate to not be able to wish that a person would make a full recovery.

Posted by: Mike | August 1, 2007 2:37 PM

No kidding.

I'm pretty damn liberal, but I hope that this does nothing to his faculties, and that he recovers fully.

Anyone wishing otherwise is pretty much the same as the wingnuts they supposedly oppose.

Posted by: gwangung | August 1, 2007 3:19 PM

Mike:

Well, if you haven't noticed up to now, there's a lot of hate stuff posted on this site.

Not that I would ever want to stop these morons from expressing their infantile fantasies.

Posted by: Poly | August 1, 2007 3:41 PM

I agree with Mike and Gwangung. Wishing things like that pretty much turns a person into one of "them" and I don't ever wanna be one of them.

Posted by: AintKatie | August 1, 2007 3:44 PM

There are lots of people whose deaths would not bother me in the least, nor their illness cause me a moment's distress. I practically cheered the death of Jerry Falwell, after all. I see no reason, however, to feel that way about John Roberts. I will certainly disagree with him on many legal issues, but that is hardly enough to make me wish ill on him. He's a very intelligent guy and seems like a good man. And I think he'll be a very good Chief Justice (as opposed to Justice).

Posted by: Ed Brayton | August 1, 2007 3:48 PM

This for Squiddartha. I wondered a bit about the previous seisure myself. It might well have been something kept quiet. When I was in grade school, back in the 50's, you couldn't teach in my school if you had a seisure disorder. My 5th grade teacher had a gran mal one day..and the other teachers, and the staff, said it was "heat stroke" because, apparently, they didn't want to see a good teacher booted out of the system. It was unfair then, and it would be unfair now, to keep a good (ok, we can debate the "good" part) man out of a job because of something like that. They used to discriminate against people with cancer, women, blacks, etc. Times change, we evolve.

Posted by: AintKatie | August 1, 2007 3:50 PM

AintKatie, that's exactly my point of view. My reaction to hearing those queries on the radio was "why should Bush have cared if he'd had a seizure once?" This is completely independent of whether or not Roberts and I would see eye to eye ideologically.

It almost seems as though Tegumai Bopsulai (how are Teshumai and Taffimai, by the way?) is implying that the fact that "something's wrong with his brain" makes him unfit to serve. Is there something I'm not aware of that makes the cognitive functions of epileptics suspect?

Posted by: Squiddhartha | August 1, 2007 5:05 PM

Since Bush is still in office, it's easy to wish Roberts a full and speedy recovery. Nothing would be gained by replacing him now.

I don't want Roberts, Alito, or Scalia to die: I just want them to retire.

Posted by: Rob Ryan | August 1, 2007 6:31 PM

For the purposes of providing some expert opinion on Mr. Roberts' situation, the attached link is from Steven Novella of the New England Skeptics society who is a neurologist.

http://www.theness.com/neurologicablog/default.asp?Display=146

Posted by: SLC | August 2, 2007 8:51 AM