womzilla | Wild Bill, Dead At Last

There were worse people than William Rehnquist. Few of them have had such a long run of substantial power over the course of the United States, starting with his work as a poll watcher in Arizona, disenfranchising blacks by administering literacy tests; through his perjury during his Supreme Court nomination hearings, slandering the name of Justice Robert Jackson with lies of race hatred; through his signed concurring opinion in Bush v. Gore, in which he made it clear that his love for democracy began and ended with allowing the vote among people who agreed with him.

I'm sure he loved his wife and children, but that's more in the category of "minimal qualification for humanity" than anything actually admirable. He liked Gilbert and Sullivan and had a small flare for the silly.

He should be ground into dust and scattered in the cold North Sea. It's better than he deserves, because we deserved better than him.