Rehnquist Robe Model
Chief Justice William Rehnquist has taken the Lord Chancellor in Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera “Iolanthe” as his robe model (“Gold Stripes Adorn New Rehnquist Robe,” Jan. 18).
The Lord Chancellor in the comedy is a buffoon, a caricature of British pomposity, a love-sick geezer whose main preoccupation is his infatuation with his pretty young wards. It’s his robe that our chief justice is adopting?
The Supreme Court as comic opera--so that’s what the revolution inside the Beltway is all about.
ROBERT D. HERMAN
Claremont
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