No wonder Bush likes him - Chief Justice Roberts has seizure and takes a dive
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Wally
7:07 AM
Chief justice "fully recovered" but hospitalized after seizure, fall
Chief Justice John Roberts Jr. was rushed to a hospital Monday afternoon after suffering a seizure at his summer island home, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said.
Roberts, 52, fell on a dock after having a "benign idiopathic seizure," said Kathleen Landin Arberg, the court's public information officer. She said that Roberts has "fully recovered from the incident" but that he would remain at Penobscot Bay Medical Center here overnight for observation.
Arberg said the chief justice, who has presided over the court for two terms, suffered minor scrapes in the fall but that a "thorough neurological evaluation ... revealed no cause for concern."
Seattle Times No cause for concern? The top judge in the nation, making decisions that will affect every American for generations has a seizure and smacks his head and there's no cause for concern?Roberts fell five to 10 feet and landed on the dock of his summer home, hitting the back of his head, according to the Courier Gazette of Rockland, Maine.
He appeared ashen and was foaming at the mouth, according to the paper. Foaming at the mouth? That can't be a good thing. Could it be the stress of being Chief Justice, trying to fill William Rehnquist's shoes is getting to him? Is he trying too hard to emulate his predecessor? Did he lean too far right and fall over, or is it something more troubling?Rehnquist also dealt with a bizarre health issue during his years on the court.
While serving as an associate justice in 1981, he checked into a hospital to kick an addiction to painkillers.
FBI reports released after his death show Rehnquist was plagued by hallucinations and imagined a CIA plot against him.
NY Post Great, Bush replaced a psychotic paranoid junkie as a Chief Justice with one who is "rabid". Fitting of the administration, actually.
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