JUDGE (SORT OF) APOLOGIZES FOR FASCIST BUSH SUGGESTION

The judge who likened the way Bush was installed into office by the conservative-dominated Supreme Court to the way Hitler and Mussolini came to power has apologized.

Judge Guido Calabresi of the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals sent the letter of apology to Chief Judge John M. Walker Jr., one of Bush's cousins.

The New York Times reports:

Judge Calabresi said that in his off-the-cuff remarks he was trying to make "a rather complicated academic argument," but he understood that they had been taken as an attack on President Bush. In a letter that contained no less than four apologies, he said he was "truly sorry" for "any embarrassment" he might have caused the appeals court. He did not, however, renounce the views he expressed.