Just As I Thought

Transactivist judges

Is there anything funnier than the unmasking of the true identities of members of a failing, fascist government? Of course, you know the subject of the following is a Republican as soon as you read “in drag.”

A 63-year-old Massachusetts federal bankruptcy judge has resigned a week after he was arrested for driving under the influence in New Hampshire while reportedly wearing a woman’s dress, heels and stockings, and carrying a purse.

Judge Robert Somma, a Newbury resident, pleaded no contest to the drunken driving charge in New Hampshire and agreed to have his license suspended for 12 months, the Manchester Union Leader reported.

“He decided with the media coverage the way it had been, it was best to put this behind him,” Gary Wenta, circuit executive for Boston’s First Federal Circuit, told the Herald.

Wenta said Somma worked in private practice for years in Boston before he was appointed to the bench by President Bush in December 2004. He will remain on leave until he resigns on April 1, after roughly three years on the job.

“He’s a highly respected member of the bar and remains so,” Wenta said. “He was serving a 14-year appointment. This will leave him without a pension.”

The Union Leader reported yesteday that Somma crashed his Mercedes into the rear of a car stopped on Elm Street after leaving a bar in the city last week.

When cops arrived, the paper reported, Somma was wearing a cocktail dress, fishnet stockings, women’s heels and fumbled through a purse for his driver’s license. [Boston Herald]

We’ve endured the ultra-right, uber-moral, holier-than-thou conservativism of the Bush world and now that it is all falling apart, it makes such an amusing spectacle. Still, I wish we hadn’t had to go through it at all, but at least we can laugh at them — and I’m sure they’re happy to be under arrest or humiliated instead of swinging from a rope.

1 comment

  • Good point about laughter. I think we have to laugh through these times, otherwise we’d be crying. And I for one am tired of crying all the time. =D

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