In the mid-1980s, the U.S. Supreme Court considered a case involving gerrymandering (the strategic redrawing of districts, using various dodgy techniques, to gain political advantage). One would think that the primary obligation of any politician is to represent his or her constituents. Apparently U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor disagreed. According to Justice William Brennan's notes of the court's internal debate, O'Connor declared that any legislative leader who failed to protect his party's interest in redistricting "ought to be impeached."

(Sandra Day O'Connor was once a Republican Arizona state senator.)

[Following the controversial 5-4 decision by the United States Supreme Court to award the 2000 Presidential election to George W. Bush, Justice O'Connor (along with Antonin Scalia, a hunting partner of Dick Cheney, and Clarence Thomas) received a request for "voluntary disbarment" for failing to recuse herself from the case:

"a. JUSTICE SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR'S election evening exclamation, 'This is terrible,' when CBS anchor Dan Rather called Florida for Al Gore before 8 P.M. clearly indicated her 'preference' in the Presidential election for which there was only one decision, that being to 'recuse' herself..."]

[Republican strategist Ben Ginsberg had a nickname for the Republican redistricting operation in 1990: "Project Ratf---."]