Would Rehnquist have sucked up and called him "Judge" even though he passed up a lifetime appointment for the big bucks of private practice while still nominally heading the OIC's "Whitewater" investigation? What would one expect from someone with Gilbert & Sullivan gold on his sleeves? Actually, I don't know. Rehnquist was big on tradition and decorum.

Remember when Starr was asked before a Congressional Committee whether he had actually talked to the witnesses of whom he was praising their truthtelling powers? He said "No." Am I the only one who caught that?

I was at an oral argument and he was moving in somebody's admission, as was I, and I was sitting right behind Starr with Keith Stroup from NORML. Keith and I know Webb Hubbell. We talked about Hubbell before Court started the just to bug Starr. He kept his cool.