"Scalia On Bush v. Gore: Get Over It!" subtitle-Its all Gore's fault....

[cornermouse]

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

"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."


Proposal: The next Democratic President and Congress should consider finding a way to impeach sitting Supreme Court Justices.

[Botany]

1. Scalia's contempt for that quaint idea of counting the vote.

"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."

[Echo In Light]

2. FASCIST

[fasttense]

3. Is the idiot rewriting history?

The real case was called Bush v Gore, not Gore v Bush. That is because the person complaining or asking for judicial intervention is listed first. Copied right off the petition: SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES/GEORGE W. BUSH, et al., PETITIONERS v. ALBERT GORE, Jr., et al./ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI TO THE FLORIDA SUPREME COURT. Bush was the first to file a complaint with the courts and bush was the first to take it to the Supremes, NOT Gore. Gore challenged the results when Katherine Harris decided to declare the bush our president but that was after the bush had already filed with the courts.

Is he attempting to rewrite history or is he covering his tracks?

[Echo In Light]

7. Kudos

[Benhurst]

4. It's up to Congress. There's not much chance Nancy Off-the-table Pelosi will find

time in her busy schedule for such unimportant matters.

[liberal N proud]

5. Yet she can do commercials with the right wing asshole Newt

That commercial she does pisses me off. She is telling us we need to contact our leaders, WTF is she? Oh never mind, she isn't

[bdamomma]

6. get over it!!!!

the arrogance of these thugs is stunning.

[markbark]

8. Point of Order...

Proposal: The next Democratic President and Congress should consider finding a way to impeach sitting Supreme Court Justices.

I know it's "just a goddamn piece of paper" but I think the relevant clause can be found in Article 2, Section 4 of the US Constitution.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other High crimes and misdemeanors.

Apparently all it takes is a member of Congress with a little bit of backbone; a rare beast indeed.

--MAB

[Echo In Light]

9. Supposed lack of backbone = All by design

[ashling]

10. The President would have little to do with impeachment

Proposal: The next Democratic President and Congress should consider finding a way to impeach sitting Supreme Court Justices.

Impeachment is an issue for Congress; However, taking bribes while a sitting judge (hunting trips paid for by litigants, etc.) would come under the purview of Justice Dept.

[L. Coyote]

11. Dec. 12, 2000 is Junta Day and always will be. The People will never forget the theft of Democracy

You do not get over the end of democracy!!