Despite Calls from Judges, Lawyers and Legislators to Resign, Justice Margaret Marshall Continues to Damage the Court and Her Future
            Even though many observers are advising Margaret Marshall to resign immediately, her failure to do so is causing puzzlement about what it is that is motivating her. The damage that is occurring to the venerable Supreme Judicial Court as an institution, is troubling many lawyers, judges and others.
            A nasty comment in the Boston Globe a week ago said that Marshall has to learn to "keep her mouth shut." This is an indication that The New York Times Company will be throwing Marshall overboard very shortly. The comment about "her mouth" was the very first sentence in a column by prominent Globe columnist, Brian McGrory, who did not write such a thing on his own.
            We've already published articles about the Sulzberger family being at odds with Marshall ever since the 2004 election. That happened after the national leaders of the Democratic Party blamed Marshall's ruling on gay marriage as the cause for John Kerry's defeat to President Bush a year ago. When that happened, the Sulzberger family began to distance themselves as far as possible from Marshall. Even though the Sulzbergers encouraged her to make the (illegal) gay marriage ruling, the Sulzbergers are now doing "damage control" on their own reputation, inasmuch as they were getting much blame from national Democrats.
            It is not clear where Marshall's husband, premiere New York Times columnist for fifty-years. Anthony Lewis, stands on the growing altercation between his wife and his employer.