Dereliction of Duty Reclaimed

{link » President Obama retakes the Oath of Office}

Chief Justice John G. Roberts was ushered into the Map Room of the White House on Wednesday night to re-administer the oath of office to President Barack Obama because the original oath on Tuesday had a word out of sequence [the word "faithfully"].

White House counsel Greg Craig said the move was made out of “an abundance of caution.” Obama’s second swearing-in, devoid of the pomp of the initial event, took place at 7:35 p.m. in the presence of a few aides and reporters. The chief justice was wearing a court robe [and, presumably, a sheepish grin]. “Are you ready to take the oath?” Roberts said. “I am,” Obama said, “And we’re going to do it very slowly.”

As I pointed out in my earlier post "Dereliction of Duty", the Chief Justice screwed up his prompting of the President during the Oath of Office on Inauguration Day. This prompted the White House counsel to advise the President to ask the Chief Justice for a do-over Oath.

The talking heads will debate the necessity of this prudent action ad nauseam, but let us not forget that we live in a litigious society; and more often than not, an insufferably argumentative one.