I’ve seen it reported nowhere else, but from a report this morning by Nina Totenberg of NPR it appears that yesterday former justice Sandra Day O’Connor gave a new performance of the longest-running self-serving lie in American jurisprudence. In a speech at Georgetown, she reportedly said that politicians in the other branches of government who do not regard completely untrammeled judicial independence as a good thing are somehow enemies of the constitutional order. From someone who wracked up one of the most impressive quarter-century records of harming constitutional law, that’s rich. But the conflict of interest is more than usually high when judges speak on the subject of the judicial power in relation to political authority. You can listen to Totenberg’s report here.