Good for Sandra Day O' Connor....She said it best!

[serryjw]

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"It is during our most challenging and uncertain moments that our nation's commitment to due process is most severely tested; and it is in those times that we must preserve our commitment at home to the principles for which we fight abroad."
"We have long since made it clear that a state of war is not a blank check for the president when it comes to the rights of the nation's citizens
end quote.......
I don't believe our founding fathers ever expected for us to have a king with ultimate powers. That is the reason for all the checks and balances in our system of government which has been eliminated by this administration and Tom Delay giving Bushit a blank check. Congress is supposed to DECLARE war and when we stopped doing this we get into these never ending battles for political gain.

[Bluebear]

1. Whatever, I can't forget she helped create this "king"

In an exclusive interview (FOX news), Justice Sandra Day O'Connor said the Supreme Court in which she presides operated under "short time pressure" that made the decision on the 2000 presidential recount "harder for the court" than other cases.

"I think we did the best we could," O'Connor told Fox News Thursday in what may be the most extensive public remarks yet made by a justice on the December 2004 Bush v. Gore court case.

O'Connor said the court was well aware that the circumstances around the decision were "not normal."

"We typically have a great deal more time to get briefs from the parties and to hear it and to resolve it ourselves. And in that instance there were time deadlines established by federal law that superimposed deadlines to which we're not normally accustomed. And it's harder for the court, I think, to operate under a short time schedule," she said.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0%2C2933%2C87704%2C00.html

[WindRavenX]

2. Agreed

She can sometimes be counted on some key lefty issues, but she along with the other four repuke owned justices cannot be forgiven for what they did in Gore V Bush.
Read "The Betrayal Of America".

[Raster]

3. In a democracy we count the votes, Sandra...

...we don't look for rationale and reasons NOT TO COUNT THE VOTES. Hang your head. You and your four partisan cohorts did more to damage democracy than any group of terrorists ever could. You made a decision to override the will of the people.

[spooky3]

6. I have a job and I had time to read the Florida Supreme Ct. decision

and see that they had done the right thing. Surely someone whose job it is to read the decision had as much time. And how did the FL ct. have the time to do a good job, but the USSC did not?

[uhhuh]

5. If that was the situation

The Court should have refused to hear the case.

[spooky3]

7. Good point--then the FL decision ordering the recount would have stood.

[dbt]

4. You, Madame Justice, are still an accessory to rape.

You held Lady Liberty down while the boys had their way with her. You belong in Susan McDougal's chains. Yet you have the effrontery to lecture the nation on "commitment to due process." And what is this shit about "checks and balances?" Where, Ma'am, were those concepts on the day you and your fellows decided that you get to elect the president?

:argh:
dbt

[Solly Mack]

8. What a hypocrite.

How dare she complain about the monster she helped to install. How dare she even use the words "due process"...She lost the "moral authority" to speak on such things December 12, 2000. She and the other 4 felons can go fuck themselves.