HORSE HOCKEY !!!
Umpires are paid to call balls and strikes. They sometimes have to take the heat when the 7th game of the World Series ends on a called 3rd strike in the bottom of the 9th, with 2 outs and the home team is behind.
O'Connor shouldn't have taken the job if she really feels this way about the decision. Is she forgetting that John Marshall FAMOUSLY wrote in Marbury v. Madison that:
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is.
AND, Is she forgetting that SCOTUS UNANIMOUSLY remanded back to the Florida Supreme Court a closely-related case, Bush v. Palm Beach Canvassing Board for re-consideration eight days before deciding Bush v. Gore?
FYI: The Florida Supreme Court's decision allowing recounts was not changed - thus, Bush v. Gore went to SCOTUS.
AND, is she forgetting that Bush v. Gore was decided 7-2 [Breyer and Souter concurring with the 5 conservatives] on the basis of 14th Amendment Equal Protection violation in counting votes differently in different districts?
AND, is she forgetting that the Florida Legislature FULLY intended to participate in the elctoral process, as provided in 3 U.S.C. §5?
FYI: 3 U.S. C. §5 provides that:
If any State shall have provided, by laws enacted prior to the day fixed for the appointment of the electors, for its final determination of any controversy or contest concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors of such State, by judicial or other methods or procedures, and such determination shall have been made at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors, such determination made pursuant to such law so existing on said day, and made at least six days prior to said time of meeting of the electors, shall be conclusive, and shall govern in the counting of the electoral votes as provided in the Constitution, and as hereinafter regulated, so far as the ascertainment of the electors appointed by such State is concerned.
AND, is she forgetting that 3 U.S. C. §5's "Safe Harbor" provision set the final date for settling the selection of electors at 12 DEC 2000 - and that a recount WAS NOT a remedy since it COULD NOT be accomplished by the deadline?
AND, is she forgetting that the second part of the Bush v. Gore decision was 5-4 ONLY because the liberal justices STILL wanted the 14th Amendment violation remedy to be that Gore to was have another bite at the apple - with another recount?
O'Connor is a putz - just trying to burnish up her own reputation with remarks like she gave to the Trib ...
Despite the gloating, though, some have pointed out that O’Connor isn’t saying the decision was wrong. As she told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer in 2010, the decision was a tough one, but there’s no reason to believe that, had the court allowed the contentious recount to drag on, Gore would have fared any better. “There were at least three separate recounts of the votes, the ballots, in the four counties where it was challenged, and not one of the recounts would the decision have changed. So I don’t worry about it,” she told Blitzer.
The SCOTUS did not decide the election, the voters did. Problem is, the margin of victory was less than the margin of error.
From what I remember, the manual recount that continued “gave” Bush the electoral votes anyway.
There is a word for former Justice O’Connor.
It begins and ends with the letter t and is considered vulgar slang.
BS to O’Connor.
That’s right. Make a ruling based on public opinion, kinda like Roberts did.
What a joke the SCOTUS has become.
Stupid hag. You didn’t “give” the election to GWB, he won fair and square. Idiot! Gore was going to recount and recount and recount until he stole the election. All you did was stop the theft.
If that makes you sad, you’re a damn nut bucket suffering from senile dementia.
If Gore had been president, our country would be gone by now.