Telephone messages in the Justice Department used to be funny, but not any more. How would it look, twenty years from now, if a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee were to read your message, yellowed with age, to the committee and the gathered press: “Felix Dabney called while you were at lunch. He wants to know how he can stop being such a dweeb.”
Dabney the dweeb is now Senator Dweeb, chairman of that Judiciary Committee. Steam rises gently from his scalp as the junior senator from Massachusetts reads the two-decades-old phone message. Your chances of getting confirmed to sit on the Second Circuit Court of Appeals are suddenly slim. Maybe black isn’t your best color after all.
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