Hit the Bricks, Chief Justice O'Connor

On 98% of the issues, O'Connor was just as bad as her inevitable replacement will be.

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Chief Justice Maureen O’Connor retired from the Ohio Supreme Court at the end of the year. Her last public session was yesterday.

Good riddance, I say. Her replacement will be just as bad as O’Connor was on 98% of the issues. At least they won’t have the guile to fool liberals into thinking they’re one of the good guys.

O’Connor was the longest state-wide serving woman in state history, with 24 years under her belt in the courts and as Lieutenant Governor. Truly an Ohio moment when a trailblazing woman reveals herself as a reactionary who made life harder for poor women across the state.

Sure, O’Connor sided with the three Democratic judges during the Republican ratfucking of the Congressional and state legislative redistricting process. And what the hell did that do for us? Nothing.

O’Connor refused to hold the governor, the state auditor, the Speaker of the House, or the president of the State Senate in contempt. Which is exactly why those goons laughed at the court; they knew there would be no actual consequences. And their plans went out in perfection, culminating with Tuesday’s state legislative primaries with voter turnout at a whopping 5.7 percent.

O’Connor’s votes were nothing more than vanity and pompous grandstanding. She knew damn well she was doing nothing to stop Republicans cementing another ten years of corrupt rule. All she wanted to accomplish was to earn some headlines as an independent thinker.

She never bucked the Republican Party in any way that mattered. She served under Governor Bob Taft, who was so corrupt he actually admitted to violating state ethics laws for failing to report gifts and golf outings from lobbyists. Do you know how corrupt you have to be in Ohio to be forced to admit you did something unethical? My god!

Now O’Connor will be shuffled into retirement on a groundswell of goodwill. You can be president of the United States until you die, but in Ohio you can’t be any judge, even a Supreme one, past the age of 70. Funny how that works.

Laura Bischoff of dispatch.com reported yesterday that O’Connor received a “clap out” upon the exit of her final oral arguments. She “soaked up the tribute” and had to brush away a tear due to the gesture from her colleagues and staffers.

It must be nice to exist in a realm of power so detached from the reality of your rule. O’Connor was by no means the worst kind of Republican, but she was still a Republican, and she made this state a worse place overall in her 24 years in power.

All those kooks in the legislature that wanted to impeach O’Connor for voting with Democrats? She helped create them. She helped guide this state into the backwater outpost it is.

Her obvious ploy will work in the mainstream press. Hard to assail such a beacon of bipartisanship, you know?

But it won’t work in the pages of The Rooster. No ceremonial votes in the twilight of her career can erase a record of obsequious service to the capital class and the Republican cause of Ohio.

That she wasn’t booed off stage as a poser is yet another haunting example of how far we have strayed from God’s light.

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