O’Connor: Maybe Supreme Court shouldn’t have taken Bush v. Gore

[UCmeNdc]

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor suggested in a weekend interview that the high court should have stayed out of the 2000 election.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2013/04/29/oconnor-maybe-supreme-court-shouldnt-have-taken-bush-v-gore/?hpid=z3&wpisrc=nl_pmpolitics

[charlyvi]

1. Ya think?

Too little, too late.

[muntrv]

2. Took the words right out of my mouth!

[avebury]

8. Totally Agree! nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Ya think??

Jeez, Sandy!

I couldn't believe it when they granted cert. in that case. OF COURSE they shouldn't have reviewed it!

[shraby]

4. I hope that plays on Sandra's mind for the rest of her miserable life...and may

she live to be very very old. She and the rest of the supremes screwed over this country royally and with malice.

[ElboRuum]

5. 13 years later?

8 years of economic destruction, expensive wars engaged under false pretense, and the decimation of our world image, all of which we are just really starting to dig our way out from and now she thinks maybe it was a bad idea to get involved with the election?

[tularetom]

6. All that is true but it isn't the reason they should have stayed out of it

If bush had turned out to be even a minimally decent president instead of the biggest disaster that ever occupied the white house it still would have been unacceptable from a constitutional standpoint.

[krispos42]

7. So I can expect them to apologize for Bush v. Gore in... 2025?

Well, that just makes it all better, doesn't it?

[bigdarryl]

11. hopefully by than the court will turn Progressive

the only remaining one that will still be there is Roberts he's only in his 50's or maybe that ASS HOLE Alito

[quadrature]

9. I guess it wasn't important enough -->

maybe the people that think that way should
stick to deciding contract disputes
and traffic tickets

[lunatica]

10. Too late for what happened but this is also history and as such it begins

to address the Supreme Court's dereliction of duty to the Constitution and puts the ugly cattle brand of theft on the selection.

Bush may think history will be kind to him but it won't. It won't be kind to the Supreme Court either. The Bush so-called "Presidency" will stand out as an aberration just like the genocide of the American Indians and the McCathy Era and slavery. Sooner or later this country is going to face it's dark side. When that happens maybe we'll start growing up as a country and learn some humility.

[sakabatou]

12. *facepalm*