Fine, you can have them back!

Some lawyers are going to argue over whether the declaration of independence was legal or not.

This historic reconsideration of the document that set the American Revolution in motion was the idea of Anthony Haller, a Blank Rome partner who also happens to be a member of Gray’s Inn in London. Assisting him is U.S. District Judge Cynthia Rufe. She acknowledged mixed emotions about the American team’s expected argument that the Declaration is legal.

“For a judge, who is supposed to uphold a legal system, it is hard to uphold a document that says `We’re going outside the law and making one of our own,’” said Rufe.

Then again, when she gets an earful of the British argument it might not be so hard to root for illegality. Arguing for King George will be Hon. Michael J. Beloff, former president of Trinity College, Oxford and member of Gray’s Inn; Sally Jane O’Neill, with Furnival Chambers; and Sir Charles Haddon-Cave,  to take his seat as Justice of the High Court on Oct. 31.

I want to know if we can ask for them to take back the original thirteen colonies as reparations.  It seems like letting someone else ride herd on the east coast would take care of a lot of our problems.  Also, anyone currently in DC (part of the original 13!) must now speak like Dick Van Dyke* in Mary Poppins.

He might have something to say about independence movements...