The NY Post has an editorial on Mary Berry's Failed Coup:
The U.S. Supreme Court has finally put an end to the year-long misuse of public funds by the notorious Mary Frances Berry, head of the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights.Couldn't happen to a more deserving wingnut. While Mary usually gets attention for her egregious pronouncements on civil rights, my favorite Berry factoid is that she and the replaced Victoria Wilson claim to be "independents" to get around the rule that no more than four members of the 8 person commission can be of one political party. Until Wilson got the boot it was 3 Republicans, 3 Democrats, and 2 "independents".
Without comment, the court yesterday declined to review a unanimous ruling of the U.S. Court of Appeals that forbade Berry from blocking President Bush's appointment of Peter Kirsanow to sit on the commission.
Bush named Kirsanow last Nov. 29 to replace Victoria Wilson; she'd been appointed to fill out the term of Leon Higgenbotham following his death.
Then-President Clinton explicitly stated that Wilson's term was temporary, but Commission Chairman Berry and her left-wing allies later insisted that she'd been given a new six-year term. They even refused to allow Kirsanow to sit in on meetings, pending the legal outcome.
Now the Supreme Court has put an end to that nonsense.
