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Wed Mar 20, 2013, 09:43 AM Mar 2013

Voices for the SCotUS: Snooki, JWoww, & the Sandra Day O'CONNOR person



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http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2013/03/snooki-jwoww-supreme-court-prop-8

[font size=5]Snooki and JWoww Agree to Kill the Supreme Court if Justices Fail to Strike Down Prop 8[/font]
By Bennett Marcus

.... Just days before the Supreme Court will be considering the Defense of Marriage Act and California’s Proposition 8, both of which prohibit same-sex marriage, the Jersey Shore stars hope the justices strike down both. “They better pass it,” JWoww said. “They better. Or I’ll come for them.” Snooki concurred: “Yeah. I will find you, and I will kill you,” she said. ....




http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2013/04/sandra-day-oconnor-guns-assault-weapons

[font size=5]Out to Lunch with Sandra Day O’Connor
The first woman on the Supreme Court talks theatrics, guns, and prairie oysters[/font].

By John Heilpern

.... She became a feminist icon upon her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1981—but does that make her a feminist? “It makes me an old lady,” she replied, and laughed. ....

“Living as I do in a city today, I have no occasion to use a gun—none. So, I don’t keep one.” ....

She decorously resists second-guessing the judgments of today’s Supreme Court. But when I asked if she thought it necessary for the general public to own assault weapons, she responded unequivocally: “I do not see the need for a resident of the United States to have an assault weapon.” ....

“Chief Justice!” she exclaimed. “Thought I saw you from in there,” he said, and the respect and affection of Chief Justice Roberts toward her were palpable. ....

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