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

[RamboLiberal]

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.

[Jackpine Radical]

1. "Water over the deck."

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

[Poll_Blind]

2. Zing! TOO TRUE! n/t

PB

[Supersedeas]

27. They know history will not look favorably upon them--revisionists are their last hope

[The Backlash Cometh]

3. Ha, ha, ha. Scalia says to take the court's decision and move on.

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!

[lyonn]

4. That is a "fine" legal mind speaking.... sheesh - - n/t

[tabasco]

6. Even my conservative law professors thought Scalia is a kook.

I believe the man is asking to be impeached.

[lyonn]

7. My retired atty. husband just shakes his head in disbelief. n/t

[aquart]

10. I prefer tar and feathers, riding out of town on a rail.

Since he has respect for neither law nor constitution.

[underpants]

11. How do you make a decision and declare no precedence?

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.

[tabasco]

15. The cases I saw in which it happened before were peculiar circumstances

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.

[Divine Discontent]

35. FUBAR

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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[fudge stripe cookays]

5. Va fan Culo, TONY. n/t

[fasttense]

8. The black robed junta that gave us crazy king george. n/t

[aquart]

9. Tony, you're going to burn in hell for that treasonous decision.

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

[underpants]

12. This whole article pisses me off to no end

:grr:

[Patsy Stone]

13. Okay, thanks.

I'll do that Tony. :eyes:

[depakid]

14. Those 5 should have been impeached

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.

[Ian David]

16. Scalia should be tried for Treason. n/t

[KansDem]

17. Hey, Tony! Don't you have a hunting date with the Vice-President?

Anytime soon?

[AX10]

18. Soon we will have the Presidency and will replace...

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

[truthisfreedom]

19. What's a little mutiny among friends?

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

[lovuian]

20. The Supreme Court will go down in history as supporting

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

They are Evil and have blood on their hands

[JudyM]

38. Well stated and to the point.

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

[Betty]

21. all those who have died in Iraq

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

[Rosa Luxemburg]

22. Perhaps Pat Fitzgerald could investigate Scalia and the 2000 election also?

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.

[goforit]

26. Now that is a great idea!!! Maybe even Spitzer of NY!!!( fitting for 911)

[KansDem]

23. "Memo to the Supreme Court: Never send a boy to do a President's job"

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

[goforit]

24. These Anti Constitutionalists should be locked in prison for eternity!!!

[zanne]

25. How would we know if a Supreme Court Justice was unbalanced?

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

[Rosa Luxemburg]

28. if there is corruption in the executive branch then

one would assume the same in the judicial branch

[flordehinojos]

29. lots of criminals who get, "caught", also wish they could tell their judges and juries,

"water over the deck -get over it."

[superconnected]

30. while the blood still gashes from the wound

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

[mitchum]

31. A Guinea Pig...

is a type of pet

[Zorra]

32. Dear Tony: Go fuck yourself. We're gonna get you kicked out of

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.

[Zhade]

33. Yep. They sound scared.

They fucking should be!

[IndianaGreen]

34. Over 3,000 GIs are dead thanks to the Supreme Court

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.

[mvd]

36. Hey, he keeps mentioning it

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.

[mitchum]

37. mvd, you are a nicer person than I am...

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.

[daleo]

39. "Water over the deck" - what a callous metaphor

Considering their chimp's incompetence in New Orleans.

[CBHagman]

40. Scalia's sons were working for Bush. Thomas's wife did as well.

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

[Fovea]

41. Tony, it doesnt matter whether I shut up or not

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.