The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President

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The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President (Paperback)

Vincent Bugliosi, With Opening Comments by Molly Ivins and Gerry Spence


With the ongoing crisis of America being held hostage by a rogue, runaway executive branch, we thought it was time to return to the scene of the original crime that made this horror possible: the theft of an election from the American people by five members of the Supreme Court.

It may be January of 2007 when we write this updated commentary on Vincent Bugliosi's indictment of the Supreme Court coup leaders, which Molly Ivins (now seriously ill with a relapse of cancer) called the "J'Accuse" of the new millenium, but we are not getting over it.

How can you get over a man who lost a presidential election by more than 540,000 votes acting like a dictator for six years -- and doing everything in his power to build the institutional constructs of fascism?

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There are terrorists in the world, but Bush and Cheney are not conducting a war against terrorism. They are conducting a war on democracy, a war against the will of the American people, a war against the truth.

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It is both fitting and appropriate that the felonious Supreme Court five grace the cover of "The Betrayal of America" in the form of mugshots.

But we were the ones mugged by their theft of democracy.

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It is time to revisit the scene of the crime -- and Vincet Bugliosi serves as a legally incisive, impassioned guide through the mugging of democracy and the birth of a regime of insidious, carefully calculated tyranny.
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throw open the doors and windows of the Supreme Court building and let the sunshine in; drag out the traitors.

you can buy the book at buzzflash.com

[stubtoe]

1. Good find. I for one will never get over the Supreme Court coup of 2000.

I wanted Rehnquist impeached.

[MissWaverly]

9. I noticed there are a lot of lame excuses coming out

methinks they fear an investigation, har, har.

:-)

[MissWaverly]

10. What I still don't understand is why Clarence Thomas voted

If the vote was 5-4, why did Clarence Thomas vote, he was nominated by Bush's father,
wouldn't that be considered a bias, how could he then impartially vote
on a matter where Bush, Jr. was the plaintiff?

[stubtoe]

11. You'd think he'd have needed to be recused on that basis.

Good point.

[MissWaverly]

15. if he had recused himself then the vote would have been tied

Sandra Day O'Conner said that they rushed it though at least with a tie, they would have
had to debate it.

[BrklynLiberal]

2. K&R

after she retired Justice O'Connor was whining about the undermining of the Judiciary by the Executive Branch of the government. Boo-f**kin'-hoo Sandy baby. You helped make it happen!!!!

[porphyrian]

3. Amen. And, if anyone hasn't seen it yet, I highly recommend Undprecedented...

Unprecedented: The 2000 Presidential Election
http://imdb.com/title/tt0346091/

[IDemo]

4. If this is half as good as 'Outrage' it will be an excellent read

Bugliosi's book on the OJ trial debacle

[MissWaverly]

8. I have to read that one, this is an excellent book

I have it in hardback, I also loved his book on the Paula Jones Case: No Island of Sanity.

[antigop]

5. Read it -- it's excellent -- sit down because it will outrage you

I read this shortly after it came out. It spells out exactly what happened with the Bush V. Gore decision.

Also, see Bugliosi's article in "The Nation":
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20010205/bugliosi

I think his book was written because of the response to this article.

[Bobbie Jo]

6. Thank you...K & R

:kick:

[MissWaverly]

7. this is my FAVORITE book, 5 stars from Miss Waverly

The Court majority after knowingly transforming the votes of 50 million Americans into
nothing and throwing out all the Florida undervotes (about 60,000) actually wrote that
their ruling was intended to preserve "the fundamental right" to vote. This elevates
audacity to symphonic and operatic levels. The Court went on to say after stealing the
election from the American people, "None are more conscious of the vital limits on its
judicial authority than are the members of this Court, and none stand more in admiration
of the Constitution's design to leave the selection of the President to the people."

Page 44 of The Betrayl of America: How the Supreme Court undermined the Constitution
and chose our president. - Vincent Bugliosi

[Mme. Defarge]

12. On the Saturday morning in November, 2000

that the US Supreme Court stopped the Florida recount, I was in my living room and heard the news on CNN. I screamed at the top of my lungs, NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Several times. A profound introvert, I am not by nature a screamer. In an instant, however, I understood at a gut level what my mind did not yet have time to process -- that my America, as I had known and loved it all of my life, was gone.

I developed a very sore throat. When Gore finally conceded a few days later, I physically collapesed and missed two days of work.

I wish with every fiber of my being that today I could simply feel embarrassed about over-reacting. But I knew. I KNEW! And, of course, my worst fears have all been realized.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. I bought it as soon as it hit the book stores...

And it is a great little book.

[happydreams]

14. K&R! Bugliosi does a smack up job! I read that book years ago.

It almost seems mild in comparison to what is going on today. But it isn't, it is only examination of the deleterious effects of politicizing the Supreme Court I know of.

[farmboxer]

16. I Bought that book when it first came out and it's excellent!!!

Very excellent book, anyone should read it.

[anitar1]

17. I used to have respect for the Supreme Court, back in the dark ages

but found out what a bunch of power grifters they are. When they filed into the SOTU chanber, I wanted to vomit. They all look slimy too. I like Buglosi, and will buy the book. Sounds like a good read.