Sandra Day O'Connor: Entire Supreme Court Was Sent Rat Poison Cookies In '05....

NY Times LINDA GREENHOUSE November 17, 2006 12:16 PM

A discussion of recent threats to judges' safety, at a bar association conference in suburban Dallas last week, became startlingly specific when Sandra Day O'Connor, the retired Supreme Court justice, recounted that each justice had received in the mail "a wonderful package of home-baked cookies" that contained "enough poison to kill the entire membership of the court."

Justice O'Connor's remarks were reported on Thursday in The Star-Telegram in Fort Worth.

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