"Maybe...*tee-hee*...we're not going...*tee-hee*...take it, goodbye...*tee-hee*"

[KansDem]

Former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor expressed doubt Friday about the decision to take the 2000 Bush v. Gore case that resulted in the election of President George W. Bush.

"It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big election issue," O'Connor told the Chicago Tribune editorial board in an interview. "Maybe the court should have said, 'We're not going to take it, goodbye.'"

"Obviously the court did reach a decision and thought it had to reach a decision," she said. "It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn't done a real good job there and kind of messed it up. And probably the Supreme Court added to the problem at the end of the day."

The Florida Supreme Court ordered a manual recount on Dec. 8, 2000, of all Florida votes in the 2000 presidential election between Vice President Al Gore and Bush, then the governor of Texas. But a 5-4 Supreme Court majority, including O'Connor, ordered an injunction the next day. The Supreme Court ruled on Dec. 12 in a decision "limited to the present circumstances" that the Florida recount was unconstitutional, giving Bush the presidency.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/29/sandra-day-o-connor_n_3177322.html

Just cut to the chase and admit it: "We fucked it up!"

Yeah, thanks Sandy, for nothing! And Bush was a huge nothing!

Do you suppose your former colleagues will come around in 20 years and say of the their Voting Rights Act decision: "Maybe...tee-hee...we shouldn't have...tee-hee...taken it...tee-hee, tee-hee"

[Democracyinkind]

1. Count it any way you want...

.. in the end, Bush "won" by 5 votes. And those were not cast into ballots.

[Autumn]

2. I despise that woman and her deadly cohorts.

Fuck them. That court should be abolished.

[deutsey]

3. "This is terrible"

"...Sitting in her hostess's den, staring at a small black-and-white television set, she visibly started when CBS anchor Dan Rather called Florida for Al Gore. 'This is terrible,' she exclaimed. She explained to another partygoer that Gore's reported victory in Florida meant that the election was 'over,' since Gore had already carried two other swing states, Michigan and Illinois.

"Moments later, with an air of obvious disgust, she rose to get a plate of food, leaving it to her husband to explain her somewhat uncharacteristic outburst. John O'Connor said his wife was upset because they wanted to retire to Arizona, and a Gore win meant they'd have to wait another four years."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2000/12/24/the-truth-behind-the-pillars.html

[alsame]

4. I remember this. Her agenda was

very clear.

[KansDem]

6. I remember a teacher in high school, Mr. Dunphy...

During a class on American government, told us the following:

You can criticize the Executive and Legislative branches of the US government because those members are elected based on politics. But you shouldn't criticize the members of the Judicial branch because they are there based on intellect and wisdom. They are above politics.

It was one of those moments that you remember like it happened yesterday and I took his explanation with me for some 40 years: the president and members of Congress could be criticized, but always respect the Supreme Court.

But, considering Bush v. Gore and "Citizens United," considering the recent Voter Rights Act decision, considering that Justices Scalia, Alito, and Thomas appear at right-wing fund raisers, I have changed my mind.

Sorry, Mr. Dunphy, Supreme Court justices are influence by politics and have become party hacks...

[WinkyDink]

8. Mr. Dunphy was a loon.

[GeorgeGist]

5. Some call it treason.

[WinkyDink]

7. Sandy Baby, Still Clueless After All These Years.

[LaydeeBug]

9. Well ain't she sweet, washing her hands of it now?

[Hydra]

10. lol

In 2011, she told the Aspen Ideas Festival that the outcome wasn't the "end of the world."

Sandra, you were the swing vote, and you voted to do the wrong thing. You get to live with it, and everything that came afterward was basically your fault.

[Initech]

11. Yeah, Bush v. Gore was a massive fuck up on multiple levels.Worst decision ever!!