Justice Scalia drew big laughs with this recent comment about the cancelled Florida recount of 2000:
"It's water over the deck — get over it," Scalia said, drawing laughs from his audience. 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.
Thought you might like to know that.
I've read the boldfaced sentence eight times. It makes no sense. Am I supposed to not know that?
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.
Rather than let the recount take place and leave state officials and possibly Congress to determine the outcome of the election, the court's five conservative justices decided to intervene.
Here, I'll repeat that.
Rather than let the recount take place and leave state officials and possibly Congress to determine the outcome of the election, the court's five conservative justices decided to intervene.
Nope. Still makes no sense. The recount was stopped.
( Okay. I follow so far. )
The recount was stopped, because if it continued, the voters of Florida might have decided the election???
( No. That can't be right. )
The Supreme Court is supposed to
guess the results of a recount???
( That can't be right. )
I'm really stumped. Good thing it's all a laughing matter, or I'd take all this seriously.
Goes duck hunting with Dick Cheney. Member of the Federalist Society.
Crazy old pillhead. Had admiral's bars sewn on robe.
Lives in a world of conflicts of interest. Owned, in a new way.
Had the gall to say this after how she voted in 2000:
Sandra Day O'Connor, a Republican-appointed judge who retired last month after 24 years on the supreme court, has said the US is in danger of edging towards dictatorship if the party's rightwingers continue to attack the judiciary.
And this guy helped.