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In reply to the discussion: G. W. Bush--Innocent of the Theft of the Presidency? [View all]Cliff Arnebeck
(305 posts)Actually, both the 2000 and 2004 Presidential elections were stolen. Paper ballots by the thousands were criminally manipulated, and electronic voting machines and tabulators were criminally manipulated, to switch votes from the Democratic candidates to the Republican. This criminal activity was not even touched upon in the recount and litigation activity surrounding the 2000 election.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision was plainly wrong--based upon politics and departure from fundamental law. Counting votes as ordered by the Florida Supreme Court could not cause "irreparable harm" of the kind that is necessary to justify the extraordinary remedy of an injunction. Justice Stevens, for a bipartisan minority of the Court, appropriately admonished the partisan Rove Republican majority, in both Bush v. Gore and Citizens United v. FEC ten years later, for undermining the reputation and credibility of the Court as an Institution for the promulgation and maintenance of law and justice.