Justices defend Florida recount decision in a new book that was published this week

[Kadie]

Justices defend Florida recount decision
By MARK SHERMAN, Associated Press Writer
3 minutes ago


WASHINGTON - Three of the five Supreme Court justices who handed the presidency to George W. Bush in 2000 say they had no choice but to intervene in the Florida recount.

Comments from Justice Anthony Kennedy and retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor are in a new book that was published this week. Justice Antonin Scalia made his remarks Tuesday at Iona College in New York.

Scalia, answering questions after a speech, also said that critics of the 5-4 ruling in Bush v. Gore need to move on six years after the electoral drama of December 2000, when it seemed the whole nation hung by a chad awaiting the outcome of the presidential election.

"It's water over the deck — get over it," Scalia said, drawing laughs from his audience. His remarks were reported in the Gannett Co.'s Journal-News.

The court's decision to halt the recount of Florida's disputed election results, thus giving Bush the state's electoral votes, has been heavily criticized as an example of the court overstepping its bounds and, worse, being driven by politics.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_go_su_co/scotus_recalling_the_recount_1

[hadrons]

1. distancing themselves from how they helped fucked the country up ....

3 turds flaoting in the bowl as far as I'm concerned

[Solly Mack]

2. To put it nicely - fuck'em

[Kadie]

3. That about sums it up. n/t

[AndyA]

5. Yes, that just about says it all. n/m

[bluedeminredstate]

4. I've alway believed the SC

to be "sacred" and supposedly free of politics. I'll never get over it - those assholes stole my faith in my country.

:mad:

[EST]

8. Sorrowfully, you are so right.

A bit of research has turned up the fact that Scalia was a virulent partisan and was implicated in election fraud/voter disenfranchisement in the '70s. "Long Dong Silver" Thomas was a vile, corrupt womanizer, accused of sexual harassment but confirmed by an over eager-to-please democratic vote.

The criminality of the republican persuasion goes back a long way, but our tunnel visioned, supposedly world wise, and, in some cases, similarly corrupt democratic "leaders" totally missed the signals-or ignored them.

We need to get some foil hats for the present majority-I see it all happening again.

[Vincardog]

6. How can I get over the rancid piece of shit you illegally installed in my white house?

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The judicial coup of 2000 will live in infamy

[EST]

7. My life sometimes seems to be a continual process of giving

up all the ideas, precepts, assurances, anything that offers any hopeful, positive outlook on life.

One of the bright spots of my belief in people was that, here and there, there are individual republicans who are deluded, bemused, misguided are, for whatever good reason, woefully ignorant but possessed of a better nature.

I have become aware that Ms. O'Connor wanted to retire some number of years before she did but would not allow her replacement to be chosen by a democratic president. Her feet of clay become more and more obvious the further she recedes into history.

One quote from the story:
"Still, O'Connor said the outcome of the election would have been the same even if the court had not intervened."

It's obvious to me she only pays attention to the right wing press, perhaps understandable, since there is so little else.