Justices Defend Florida Recount Decision (Scalia - Get Over It)

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070124/D8MRTRGO0.html

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. (GCI)'s Journal-News.

Right on, Tony. Water over the deck of a foundering Ship of State.

PB

Er, isn't he a strict constructionist who is trying to change legal precedent on many cases?

Yo, Scalia, take your own advice and move on!

I believe the man is asking to be impeached.

Since he has respect for neither law nor constitution.

How can you make a ruling and say it is one-case-only? Isn't precedence the check on judicial review -that you have to consider the scope of the decision??

I'm not a lawyer but that is something that even they can't reconcile.

that were unlikely to happen ever again.

The current junta can not use that rationale because it is very likely we will have more close elections in the future. So Bush v. Gore is totally FUBAR and corrupt on its face.

that sums up the white house and the majority control on the supreme court, I truthfully thank God we have control of Congress to do something, and I'm pretty certain, we're gonna see some precedings that they're TERRIFIED of seeing happen...



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Every drop of blood that has been shed because of it will drip from your hands for eternity.

:grr:

I'll do that Tony. :eyes:

There is no defense for this decision. These so called "justices" had neither the constitutional authority nor any legal precedent to support their decision. They willfully violated the law. Period. End of story.

Any honest legal analyst will tell you that.

Scalia and Kennedy. O'Connor can go to Hell too! :puke:

His "deck" reference makes it sound like we were adrift at sea.

the Worst President in the US who they let steal the Election of 2000

They are Evil and have blood on their hands

I'd add "erroneously" supporting because it was a bad decision from a constitutional standpoint.

should their families "get over' it? I am prety sure if Gore were president, he wouldn't have started an illegal war.

while Fitzgerald is at it he may want to extend his findins to the 2000 election? The result should have never gone to SC. President Gore won.

I swear that'll appear on my bumper some day soon! :grr:

If Scalia has gone over the edge, wouldn't the other justices protect him? How would we know?

one would assume the same in the judicial branch

"water over the deck -get over it."

I'll get over it when chimp is tried and convicted, as will as you Scaly-man

is a type of pet

the SCOTUS, disbarred, and imprisoned after we take the WH in '08.

You deliberately subverted our democracy and sold the people of the US out, and you damn well know it, you slimy shithouse rat.

They fucking should be!

Scalia should tell the families of the fallen to "get over it" for it was his intervention in the Florida electoral process that brought about the Iraq war.

I think he's never gotten over his unconstitutional, and yes, ACTIVIST, decision. In the dark recesses of the mind, it haunts even a scumbag like him.

and therefore believe that even someone like Scalia has the capacity for guilt.
However, I don't believe that he does.
I think that he brings up the topic so often because he is gloating about the success of the coup. He is an arrogant sociopath. And very dangerous.

Considering their chimp's incompetence in New Orleans.

How can two justices rule on a case in which their own families stood to benefit financially?

I have no idea why pundits far and near did not blast Scalia and Thomas for corruption, why Jeb Bush isn't blasted as part of a corrupt machine to install his brother, why Republican staffers who started riots during the vote count were not prosecuted (the images have circulated and the names are known).

More than one article has dealt with the ethical issues involved. Here's a link to one.

http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3975/is_200304/ai_n9221306

because what matters is what history says about you, and it is beyond your rescuing at this point.

Your tenure on the court will be discussed in depth by future legal scholars, and they will say things about you far more insulting than I can.