Scalia On Bush v. Gore: It Was GORE's FAULT-"Get Over It-It's So Old By Now"

[kpete]

"It was Al Gore

Scalia On Bush v. Gore: Get Over It!
Supreme Court Justice Tells 60 Minutes It’s Nonsense To Say The Decision Was Politically Motivated

Scalia: Get Over It!

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia tells Lesley Stahl that the 2000 Bush v.
(CBS) People who believe the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision giving the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush was politically motivated should just get over it, says Justice Antonin Scalia.

Scalia denies that the controversial decision was political and discusses other aspects of his public and private life in a remarkably candid interview with 60 Minutes correspondent Lesley Stahl, this Sunday, April 27, at 7 p.m. ET/PT.

"I say nonsense," Scalia responds to Stahl’s observation that people say the Supreme Court’s decision in Gore v. Bush was based on politics and not justice. "Get over it. It’s so old by now. The principal issue in the case, whether the scheme that the Florida Supreme Court had put together violated the federal Constitution, that wasn’t even close. The vote was seven to two," he says, referring to the Supreme Court’s decision that the Supreme Court of Florida’s method for recounting ballots was unconstitutional.

Furthermore, says the outspoken conservative justice, it was Al Gore who ultimately put the issue into the courts. "It was Al Gore who made it a judicial question…. We didn’t go looking for trouble. It was he who said, 'I want this to be decided by the courts,'" says Scalia. "What are we supposed to say -- 'Not important enough?'" he jokes.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/24/60minutes/main4040290.shtml

[neverforget]

1. My hatred for that man knows no bounds.......

:mad:

[ladjf]

13. He's one of the top ten worst Americans in history.

[angstlessk]

2. by 'WE' does the mean the repuglicans or the supreme court???

enquiring minds want to know!!!!

[musette_sf]

3. va fungool

you no-good sfaccim.

[sinkingfeeling]

4. I'll be over it, Scalia, when you're long gone and written up in the history books as a

joke of a Supreme Court judge.

[Bok_Tukalo]

5. If that is the case, Mr Scalia

Why isn't the decision called Gore v Bush?

[Junkdrawer]

6. So, that's how you remember it? Gore asked for the injunction...

I'm sure Gore begged for the counting to be stopped because of the potential harm to Bush...

:eyes:

[nykym]

7. Ummm excuse me your dishonor

but your quote of "We didn’t go looking for trouble. It was he who said, 'I want this to be decided by the courts,'" says Scalia. "What are we supposed to say -- 'Not important enough?'" he jokes.
So why is it that you decide not to hear other cases then? I quess there just not the ones you can manipulate.

[UTUSN]

8. In other words...

[Mad_Dem_X]

9. F*ck you, Scalia

And your Repug cronies on the Supremely Crooked Court, too.

[Postman]

10. Scalia's father was a member of the American Fascist Party. Look it up.

According to your twisted logic, Bush would have been "harmed" by counting the votes.

Fascism lives in the form of Antonin Scalia

[puebloknot]

11. And let's get over slavery, too, Mr. Scalia. It's so tiresome to hear those black people...

...whining about how what was done to their forebears has resonated down through time and has never gone away. It's their fault for continuing to bring it up. If they would just move on, and forget about Dr. King because it was all so long ago, we'd have a more peaceful country.

I hate having to use smilies to get my meaning across, but just in case ... :sarcasm:

[ellie]

12. My husband's brother

actually said this once. They almost came to blows over it.

[Javaman]

14. an irrelevant sycophant. nt

[rhett o rick]

15. There is no God. If there was Scalia's chair would have burst into flames by now and I'd have to

join the church.

[Supersedeas]

16. the non-denial denial -- telling someone to get over it is a partisan dismissal tactic

in other words, there is not other rational basis -- just get over it.

[ljm2002]

17. Again, I feel compelled to point out...

...Scalia knows full well who brought that damned case before the Supreme Court. He also knows full well that he is safe in saying something like that -- he certainly won't be called on it by the "journalist" doing the interview. And it serves his purpose to lie and confuse the issue, so that the dimwits who listen to the likes of Limbaugh, Hannity and O'Reilly will just nod and say, "See? First that Gore guy brings the case, then he doesn't like the outcome! Just like one a them libruls!"

AAARRRGGGHHH!!!

(must not voice what I am thinking...)

[Uncle Joe]

18. A thousand years after your bones turn to dust, your betrayal

against the people of the United States will be remembered. Get over that!

[VOX]

19. Right-wing let-em-eat-cake judges. Bitter? You fucking bet I'm bitter!!!

I'm not only bitter, I am ***enraged** that the right wing has, for the most part, taken over this country, and turned it into a near-irrelevant vulgarity.

I wish there really were a vengeful Old Testament God who would smite and smote and visit a plague of boils and locusts on these evil-doers.

The sad truth is that most of them just get to play golf and count their ill-gotten hedge-fund bazillions. :grr:

[spanone]

20. you know, some people, it doesn't matter what they say because you have so little respect for them

[tbyg52]

21. BS it wasn't politically motivated

and not just by Scalia either.

Darn, I wish I could find the quote from O'Connor. No, it's not the widely reported one of her expressing her dismay to a friend.

I saw it in Newsweek (or some mainstream weekly news magazine - I'm assuming Newsweek because I subscribed to it until they hired Rove). It was just a paragraph or two among other little blurbs from famous people.

She came right out and said to the magazine that she voted for Bush because she couldn't stand the idea of a Democrat making the next few Supreme Court appointments.

This is not my imagination, but I have not been able to find the darn thing on any computer searches. (I'm sure that's because it was just one blurb amongst a couple three pages of them.)

I tried flipping through the hard copies at the library once, but after a while it was physically painful.

Darn, darn, darn, I should have torn the thing out, but I was not *quite* as furious then (I think it was somewhere in the area of her retirement) as I am now.

[eomer]

22. Here's an article...

that refers to a number of articles in various publications -- the Wall Street Journal, Evening Standard of London, Newsweek, USA Today, and a book by Jeffrey Toobin. All on the topic of O'Connor's remarks about retiring.

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

Maybe one of those is the report you are looking for.

[Festivito]

23. I'll get over it when I get over DEMOCRACY. /nt

[driver8]

24. I hate that piece of shit. I guess he was absent from law school the

day they taught "Constitutional Law".

[truebrit71]

25. What an asshole...But then, that's nothing new...He's a fucking right-wing tool...

.."Get over it"...:eyes: How impartial of you, you dirty fucking scumbag prick...:grr:

[Hubert Flottz]

26. RIGHT...get over it...

So they can do it again in November...

Edit...Form 1040 "If line 9 is less than line 10 you did not pay enough taxes and must send a check in with your income tax return. Fill in ine 12 with the amount of your payment (line 10 minus line 9)."

1040 SleeZee Line 9. GET OVER THAT TOO MFers!

[Mountainman]

27. When you think of the things we could have accomplished over the last seven years compared to what

this fucking administration along with the repuke congress has done it makes it very impossible for me to get over it. If it ever happens it will take a couple of generations to repair the damage the right has done.

[Hubert Flottz]

28. Did you think when you were doing your time in Nam that...

These guys would be throwing your vote in the trash?

[Mountainman]

31. Right after I got back from Vietnam I went to work for Gene McCarthy's campaign.

I had the stupid notion that us vets could show the country the futility and waste that war is and that maybe we could teach and the country would learn a lesson from us.

They elected Nixon and I forgot about that idea. At that time I lost all hope that we would become a more progressive nation. Johnson's Great Society got scuttled by the war and we have never gotten back to the idea that the government was meant to serve all the people not just the few holding the reigns of power. We have gone to the extreme of our ignorance I hope. If they elect McCain I am giving up on caring anymore.

[Hubert Flottz]

32. "If they elect McCain I am giving up on caring anymore."

I feel the same way...SICK and TIRED. But I will never throw in the towel and make it easy on these lying, greedy, pigs. I'm way more disturbed today, than I was with the way things stood in 1970!

I look for them to sElect McCain. These crooks won't ever play fair, you can bet on that.

GTSY still in here swinging...hope you are doing okay. Seems like a lifetime since 2000!

[ProfessorGAC]

29. Scalia: The Most Overrated Intellect Of Our Time

Anybody who espouses originalism has the depth of thought of a single celled lifeform.
The Professor

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. More important to ignore the Constitution, I guess?

What are we supposed to say -- 'Not important enough?"' he jokes. What a funny guy! :grr: