A Funny Anecdote

Skipping out, the Renquist Way

Perhaps for the next State of the Union address, the justices of the Supreme Court should imitate the late-Chief Justice William Renquist when it comes to such events:

The flashes of discord between the two branches might have been avoided had the justices followed the example of Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, who once skipped the State of the Union address in the Reagan era to attend to other matters.

The speech “conflicted with the watercolor class he was taking at the local Y.M.C.A.,” Chief Justice Roberts, who had served as a law clerk to Chief Justice Rehnquist, recalled last year. “He had spent $25 signing up for the class, and he wasn’t going to miss one of the sessions.”

(From the New York Times)

Hilarious