SCALIA Re: BUSH vs GORE: "Stop Rehashing The Decision-GET OVER IT"

[kpete]

NEW ROCHELLE - Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia defended the court's decision to halt the Florida recount in the 2000 presidential election and even joked yesterday that it was time for people to "get over it."

During an appearance at Iona College, Scalia said Florida's handling of the recount, which was the key to determining whether Republican George W. Bush or Democrat Al Gore became president, was a clear violation of the Constitution's guarantee of equal protection under the law.

...

"The whole world was laughing at the world's greatest democracy," Scalia said "They could not complete an election."

Scalia's comments about perhaps the most controversial decision of his tenure came during a brief question-and-answer period that followed his half-hour speech. He let it be known that it's time for people to stop rehashing the decision.

"It's water over the deck - get over it," Scalia said, eliciting a loud burst of laughter from the audience.

http://www.nyjournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070124/NEWS01/701240363/1276

[AX10]

1. No, the world was appauled when the greatest Democracy...

no longer was so when you decided to stop the electoral process.

[SharonAnn]

3. And they were "appalled"!

[StrictlyRockers]

6. The shrub was selected, not elected.

The Constitution should be obeyed. It has the authority. Scalia is a partisan hack.

[Tigress DEM]

29. True that.

[maxsolomon]

2. they laughed at us, now they are crying for us

see:
iraq
katrina

and its "under the bridge", you cretin.

[Solo_in_MD]

22. Or water over the dam...

[tanyev]

4. Isn't it about time for him to go on another hunting trip with Cheney?

[Tigress DEM]

30. Aren't they both old enough to die from natural causes?

[AndyA]

5. F you, Scalia.

It's because we are (were?) the world's greatest democracy that the election was in question. PROOF THAT THE SYSTEM WORKED.

That is, until you stuck your fat f*ck nose in where it didn't belong.

[NanceGreggs]

7. How apt ...

"It's water over the deck ..." Yeah, just like the water that spilled over the deck as the Titanic went down.

Only this time, it was the good ship Democracy.

[brentspeak]

8. Ha, ha, ha. How funny. How hysterical. How knee-slapping hilarious.

Sarcasm - heavy.

[ReadTomPaine]

9. Sorry, Fat Tony. You're never going to live this one down.

That decision will rightfully haunt you for the rest of your life. You deserve every bit of criticism and scorn you've worked so hard to garner.

That's something you'll never overcome. Get used to it.

[mistertrickster]

10. Get over it HAHAHA! Man, that is some funny shit, is it not?

Because after all, law students and legal scholars aren't supposed to ever think about a case after it's been ruled on :sarcasm:

IMPEACH SCALIA.

[vireo]

11. Not getting over it

Regardless of the number of times he dismissively tells us to.
http://www.talkleft.com/story/2006/10/23/172138/28

[July]

12. Hey, traitor, we'll never forget -- GET USED TO IT!!!!!

Love the lame excuse he offers -- that we needed to complete the election. Forget whether it was fairly counted or not. Fucker.

[Deep13]

13. Issues concerning the EC are under the exclusive jurisdiction of the Senate...

SCOTUS had no business even hearing the case.

[WI_DEM]

14. I'll never get over you handing the presidency to a psychopath, Scalia!!!

[Rex]

15. That's kewl Tony, you know you're going to Hell right?

Just reminding you that Hell awaits.

[mentalsolstice]

16. "It's water over the deck - get over it"...Freudian slip?

Was he perhaps thinking of the Titanic when he said that? Because it sure feels like that's the ship we're sailing on these days, thanks to Scalia, et al.

[Tigress DEM]

28. Sorry you lost your water on the deck, Tony. Try Depends.

Y'a ole geezer.

This is supposed to be a fair and impartial administer of justice who uses a great consitutional crises as fodder for his on the road show.

Maybe he's so busy in his task of rearranging the deck chairs on this Titanic wreck our government has become under bush the lesser that he's mixing his metaphors.

[peacetalksforall]

17. Just get over it Antonin Scalia - just get over your gift to friends and

the way it's going to go down in history. A theft.

[Fovea]

18. You PIG!

They aren't laughing at the US now. They are preparing to take our economy down like a wounded lobbyist on the Serengeti. Why?

Because you turned us into a fascist empire almost single handedly, you little Mussolini wannabee.

[Fridays Child]

19. He admits it was unconstitutional but he upheld it?

Is he begging to be impeached or is he just the most arrogant son of a bitch on the planet?

[MurrayDelph]

20. Don't law students routinely study previous decisions?

Why should they stop looking at one of the worst decisions made in the history
of the Supreme Court, just because one of those "Justices" responsible for it
says we should?

I didn't realize there was a statute of limitations on treason.

[Turbineguy]

21. Sounds like what I'm hoping

St. Peter will say to Scalia some day.

[Uncle Joe]

31. I believe St. Peter will just e-mail him, not to bother coming up

to waste his time, just go straight to hell, do not pass go, do not collect $200.

[ninkasi]

23. What else can you expect

from a man so drunk on power that he actually had the audacity to say that “Mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached”

In other words, the "mere fact" that a person is innocent wouldn't stop fat Tony from giving the lethal injection himself. These are the words of a sociopath, which is probably why he thinks it was ok to give fellow sociopath Dubya the presidency.

[Marie26]

24. Marie26 Re: Roe vs. Wade: "Stop Rehasing the Decision - GET OVER IT! nt

[PoiBoy]

25. Can a Supreme be impeached?

I think there is enough evidence that Scalia was derelict in his duties back in 2000...

I think it was Thom Hartmann on yesterday's show who said that the most pressing action facing us is that we must STOP or slow down this president As Soon As Possible!!! ...Thom subscribed to John Dean's premise of starting impeachment processes against other members of the cabinet, specifically Alberto Gonzales... I'd truly like to see Scalia added to that list... and as Fitzgerald's case against Cheney takes shape, one can only hope for justice there...

kicking the legs out from under the bushco pretzeldency using the impeachment process, combined with non-binding and other resolutions coming from the House and Senate, might slow down this headlong rush into the wall...

[Uncle Joe]

32. Yes they can be impeached,

and I can't think of any injustice more deserving than "No Conflict of Interest Scalia".

[Arugula Latte]

26. I think Sandra Day O'Connor realized she'd shit on her legacy after Bush v. Gore

She will always be remembered not only as the first woman Supreme Court Justice, but as the one that helped flush Democracy down the drain in the United States. She knows it. That will always follow her.

Tarnished, Sandy. Forever in history, there will be a black mark by your name.

[gratefultobelib]

27. Reading down thru these posts helps--somewhat. I know my DISGUST with this man is shared.

[JNelson6563]

33. Unlike Roe v. Wade

No, that's a decision worth rehashing. Presidency of the United States? A mere blip or, if you prefer, a comma.

Oy.

[sinkingfeeling]

34. And thanks to you and your cohorts, the country is now $trillions in debt, and 10s of thousands

of our children have been killed or maimed. Our laws have been violated, as have our rights. Our planet has suffered unimaginable harm at the hands of your 'chosen one'.