http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3202005Oh my.
It's a wonder the primitives aren't still whining about the Hayes-Tilden controversy.
RockaFowler Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 02:58 PM
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Antonin Scalia tells "60 Minutes": People should get over Bush-Gore decision
http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblo...
Still fuming over the 2000 presidential election? Don't look for any sympathy from Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
In a "60 Minutes" interview this weekend, Lesley Stahl asks about the perception that the court's decision, giving the White House to George W. Bush over Al Gore, was based more on politics rather than justice.
"I say nonsense," Scalia tells her. "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." He notes that the U.S. Supreme Court decided, 7 to 2, that the Florida Supreme Court's method for recounting ballots was unconstitutional.
Scalia, a fierce conservative, stresses that the U.S. Supreme Court didn't ask for the case.
"It was Al Gore who made it a judicial question ... We didn't go looking for trouble," Scalia says. "It was he who said, 'I want this to be decided by the courts. What are we supposed to say -- 'Not important enough?'"
Let the torches and pitchforks gather.
It's a big bonfire there on Skins's island; sample comments of the primitives:
newmajority (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:00 PM
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2. Listen up Scalia, you Opus Dei, son of a Fascist, criminal son of a bitch.
We will NEVER get over it. **** you, you ******* Nazi piece of shit.
BleedingHeartPatriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:13 PM
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18. I was told by many people at time to "just get over it". I will, perhaps, in time, but it
isn't twisting my guts in a knot, either. I know, I saw, we had criminals launch a poltical coup and those who voted for the sham known as George Dubya Bush are culpable, as well.
Herdin_Cats (999 posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:02 PM
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4. Does any one know of a legitimate reason that sorry excuse for a justice could be impeached? (Along with four of his cohorts.)
NotGonnaTakeIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:10 PM
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15. I was wondering the same thing.
Is is possible to impeach a Supreme Court Justice?? Scalia and his ilk NEED TO GO!!! I would think that his clear bias would be grounds for impeachment, since Supreme Court Justices are supposed to be unbiased and fair, weighing the law on their own merits (but we all know how that's going!!)
I dunno.
When it comes to bias, I happen to think the Supreme Court's been far too biased in favor of the abortion industry.
Herdin_Cats (999 posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:15 PM
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20. I don't think you can impeach them for bias. Although, I wish you could.
I think it requires high crimes and misdemeanors.
Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:03 PM
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6. Scalia and Thomas both had massive conflicts of interest when they installed Stupid into office in December, 2000. They should have recused themselves.
Failure to do so makes them both vulnerable to impeachment should we ever get a Democratic Congress with the backbone to stand up for the country and do it.
Anybody happen to know if the warped primitive has a domineering wife?
Ishoutandscream2 (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:03 PM
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9. "Get over it"? To hell with you, Scalia
Thousands of dead Americans, Iraqis, etc. Scarred for life veterans who were "lucky" to make it home. Record deficits and gas prices. Americans losing jobs and pensions. Record foreclosures. Need I go on?
"Get over it"? You're out of touch, you Bushbot asshole. Thanks for being a responsible party for the mess we're in.
kenny blankenship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:05 PM
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12. I'm glad you're mentioning it now Antonin. Because very shortly we will have a great chance to revisit this unprecedented act of treason and bring justice back to this land.
SoCalDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:06 PM
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14. And Scalia should STFU and in a perfect world..drop dead!
DinahMoeHum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:11 PM
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16. Would someone care to send him a dead fish. . .or a rose?
or whatever the Mafia sends someone who is about to be. . .well, you know.
NoGOPZone (437 posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:13 PM
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19. I've read a lot of Scalia's legal opinions
Unfortunately, "Get over it" is a close as he can come to making a decent legal argument
awoke_in_2003 (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:20 PM
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21. Hey Scalia, I got one word for you
"VAFFANCULO"
Virginia Dare Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:37 PM
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22. Don't you have something better to do Anton you asswipe?
like go hunting with your buddy Darth Cheney?
IMPEACH THAT BASTARD, PLEASE IF IT'S THE LAST THING YOU DO DEMOCRATS, IMPEACH THAT M.F.'ING BASTARD!!!!!
Usrename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:37 PM
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24. Bush was the plaintiff, not Gore.
What a lying sack of shit.
There was no 7-2 decision in Bush v Gore. He's just full of shit. There was a fiat by him and Rehnquist that it's unconstitutional to count leagally cast votes, but only this one time, in only this one race. What a total fascist asshole.
This man should be impeached as soon as possible.
His refusal to recuse himself from the Cheney decision while going hunting with him during the deliberations is impeachable.
Much debate and titter-tatter among the primitives as to whether Alphonse Capote Gore was the plaintiff or the defendant; one assumes primitives know as much about law as primitives know about economics and history and sociology and Christianity and politics.....
It just goes on and on.
fed_up_mother (102 posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:52 PM
Response to Reply #24
29. 7-2, and 5-4 per Wickipedia
"Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court case heard on December 11, 2000. In a per curiam opinion, by a vote of 7-2, the Court held that the Florida Supreme Court's method for recounting ballots was unconstitutional, and by a vote of 5-4, the Court held that no alternative method could be established within the time limits established by Florida Legislature."
The fact is that what Gore asked for was unconstitutional, Had he asked for a state wide recount, we may have never had a war.
It really sucks how one bad decision can destroy a people, an economy, a country's reputation.
Usrename Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 04:14 PM
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35. That isn't really what happened.
The case is Bush v Gore, remember? Bush asked the Florida Supreme Court for the remedy of a state-wide recount, and it was granted, without any opposition from Gore. Bush accused Gore of cherry-picking counties for the recount he was entitled to. The court agreed and ordered a state-wide recount.
The county I live in was recounted, and the results of the hand-count were certified by Harris. They never ruled that the recount in my county was unconstitutional and should be struck down.
The whole case was a farce, and according to the court itself, the decision isn't law. It's beyond pathetic.
devilgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 03:44 PM
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27. That guy needs to be locked up for the rest of time.
Throw away the key
The primitives go on and on about whether Alphonse Capote Gore was the plaintiff or the defendant, and whether the Supreme Court vote went 7-2 or 5-4.
ack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 04:10 PM
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34. I'm no thief. I only drove the getaway car.
Scalia's name will go down in infamy.
iris5426 Donating Member (667 posts) Thu Apr-24-08 04:37 PM
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40. Did anyone catch Boston Legal this week?
Watching Alan tell off all the justices was great...if only that would happen in real life! I love that show...he totally called Scalia on the hunting with Cheney thing, along with a bunch of other stuff.
Terran (1000+ posts) Thu Apr-24-08 04:50 PM
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43. I guess that goes for legal precedents that are old too
We should just "get over" them, because they're "old", and do whatever the **** we want, eh Nino?
Oh my.
