Thursday, July 14, 2005

Now we have a number

Conservative activists have rounded up signatures from about 122,000 people who think President Bush should nominate former Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore, who lost his job in 2003 after disobeying a federal court order, to the U.S. Supreme Court. The fact that pretty much anyone would be nominated sooner than Moore hasn't deterred the activists; as one said, "Whatever his prospects may be, Roy Moore personifies the standard against which other prospective nominees ought to be measured."

One hundred twenty-two thousand people.