Heah come de judge! (Anybody heah?)

I came across an interesting item while looking for something else on the Scripting News blog.

Apparently, Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor gave a somewhat fiery speech at Georgetown University a few days ago, in which she warned of attacks by the (Republican-dominated) Congress on the independent judiciary. She apparently went so far as to use the word "dictatorship," and though she did not mention specific Republicans by name, she quoted some of the heinous statements that they have made lately.

There seems to be some concern in the blogosphere that the speech was not heavily covered by the MSM. NPR's Nina Totenberg did cover it, however, and I am sorry to say that I missed the story when it originally aired.

I suppose one reason that there wasn't so much coverage is that the speech was not recorded on video- or audiotape. Still, it seems an important enough moment to justify the complaints that we haven't heard this story.

There's a nice write-up of the furor over the lack of furor, by Jack Shafer on Slate.com.

You can hear NPR's story or read the transcript of the NPR story (at RawStory.com), too.

And let's hope the entire transcript of O'Connor's speech makes it out into the open, soon. I'm talking to you, Nina. We know you have it.