Judge Judy for the Supreme Court?
Syndicated television jurist Judy Sheindlin certainly isn't giving a firm no - and
nobody doubts that she knows how.
"I am very flattered even to be mentioned in the same sentence as the Supreme
Court," Judge Judy told me through a spokesman, in response to my pal Richard
Cohen's suggestion, in yesterday's Daily News, that President Bush consider her for
the vacancy created by Sandra Day O'Connor's retirement.
"What Mr. Cohen is saying, tongue in cheek, is that you shouldn't choose someone
based on a preconceived ideology, because that very often changes," Sheindlin
went on. "What you should be looking for is someone with a sense of justice
and fairness."
But Cohen was being "mostly serious," he wrote in his column.
"I have no idea if Judy Sheindlin is a Republican or a Democrat, and her legal
ideology is a mystery to me," Cohen wrote. "I only know that she gets the
job done and can, in the inimitable words of the Ultimate Judge Judy Web page, 'see
through BS pretty fast.' That's the judge for me."
Cohen told me yesterday that he's grown attached to Judge Judy through his sick-day
TV viewing at home.
When asked point-blank if she'd like to be considered for the job, Judge Judy dodged
the question.
"I prefer not to rule by committee," she said.
Yeah, and I bet she'd also prefer not to give up her $30 million annual salary, but
that's not the same as saying she wouldn't do it if the President called.
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