These guys just don't let anything get by them, do they?

So a woman from Connecticut mailed some brownies laced with rat poison to members of the Supreme Court last year, turns out. Nobody much noticed at the time. (Well somebody noticed, because the woman, Barbara Joan March, 60, got 15 years in the slammer for her recipe.) But it became news when Sandra Day O'Connor mentioned it at a conference last week.

From CNN:

"Every member of the Supreme Court received a wonderful package of home-baked cookies, and I don't know why, (but) the staff decided to analyze them," the Fort Worth Star-Telegram quoted O'Connor as saying at the legal conference November 10 in the Dallas area. "Each one contained enough poison to kill the entire membership of the court."

The letters did not seem to pose much of a real danger since the threatening note told the recipients the food was poisoned. In court papers submitted with the plea agreement, prosecutors said each of the envelopes contained a one-page typewritten letter stating either "I am" or "We are" followed by "going to kill you. This is poisoned."

(Emphasis mine.)

I hope she knew a little more than that about the cases she ruled on. But hey, nice going, staff!

(And a note to the good folks at NSA: This is why I googled "poison supreme court" a few minutes ago. Honest. I'm not kidding here. Cross my heart.)