SCALIA RAPS GORE FOR '00 (USSC Justice says Gore people forced election 2000 into courts)

NY POST ^ | November 22, 2005 | FRANKIE EDOZIEN

[GBA]

"Plus the fact that they were dead wrong."

If you're a demonrat, having the right lawyer means never having to be or say that you're wrong. I am so glad the Clinton crime family/Gore lost.

[stylin19a]

I wish I could read the whole article.
Scalia isn't quite correct.

It was Pres. Bush who first took this to the courts, not Gore. He filed an injunction to stop the manual recounts.

In fact, the SCOTUS case is Bush v. Gore, not Gore v. Bush

The outcome, however was just fine :)

[dvwjr]

There was NO Florida law mandating a State-wide recount of the votes. NONE at all.

The Supreme Court decision was 7-2 AGAINST Gore. The 5-4 vote was on the practicality of ordering a new Florida recount with the Congressionally mandated "safe haven" (3 USC 5) date for the certification of the Presidential and Vice-Presidential Electors expiring as of midnight December 12th. That time limit was just TWO hours away when the US Supreme Court issued its decision. The four members of the minority position of the Supreme Court were all for having the Florida re-count continue up to the time the Electors were to vote on December 18th, 2000. Any new slate of electors based on a recount in the December 13th to before noon on December 18th could be discounted by the Congress when it met to count the Electors votes on January 6th, 2001.


dvwjr

[Liz]

Well, there were actually several legal actions, and lots of behind the scenes laywering going on ......Bill Sammon's book goes into detail........but the biggie was the USSC stopped the count. That's what all of America was waiting to hear.

[Liz]

Thanks---nice contribution to the thread.

[Political Junkie Too]

Thanks. I should have posted the cite to Klock's whole argument: SUPREME COURT: HARRIS ARGUMENTS

-PJ

[zbigreddogz]

That's totally disrespectful.
































To the good people of Chad :).

[Mr. Buzzcut]

"The issue was whether Florida's Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court [would decide the election.] What did you expect us to do? Turn the case down because it wasn't important enough?"

In a non-Bizarro World, people would recall wistfully how Algore, aided by the renegade Florida Supreme Court, tried to steal the 2000 election.

As it is, I blame Gore's refusal to accept the fact that he lost for the acrimony that has presided ever since.

[GSWarrior]

It's been said many times before on FR but it bears repeating:

If Clinton had been kicked out of office Gore would have been essentially running as an incumbent and probably would have won in 2000.

We dodged a bullet!

[Liz]

Good point----and Gore later blamed his loss on Clinton's behavior in office.

[gondramB]

"Probably not. Breyer, after all, decided that the SCOFLA ruling was unconstitutional. The 5-4 decision just blocked them from kicking things down the road a few days, to the point where various other parts of the election system would kick in and make the SCOFLA and the vote count legally meaningless - though perhaps still politically damaging."

Thank you - I didn;t know that.

[stylin19a]

I know...the point I was trying to make is, Scalia said "the election was dragged into the courts by the Gore people"..., when in fact, Pres. Bush went to court 1st on 11/11/2000, filing an injunction to stop the manual recount.

[CGVet58]

yes, very true. along with the comments earlier on the CNN spin, the media had been in bed with Gore (horrible visual, I know, but painfully necesssary to make the point...) since well before election night. And, on election night proper, media called the state for Gore with about 10-15 minutes left to go at the polls in the Central Time Zone (FL straddles both EST & Central).

Problem is, the Central zone is where the Panhandle is... which is where Bush's strongest Conservative Base is... so potentially thousands of conservative voters walked away from the lines when they heard the Dan Rather's of the world call it for Gore.

Per Gannon's book, something between four and sixteen pro-Bush voters never pulled the levers because of this. I'm inclined to believe it's closer to the larger number, especially if the 2004 election (where panhandle republicans didn't get snookered like last time) turnouts are any indication (we waxed the dhimmicrats asses this time 'round...).

[Miss Marple]

I thought I would include some random memories from that horrible 30 days:

Every time Cheney appeared and spoke, the stock market would go up. Every time Gore appeared on TV, the stock market would go down.

One of the most hilarious moments was the staged conference call with Daschle, Gephardt, Gore and Lieberman READING their bogus lines. Uncontrollable laughing from freepers over that one.

David Boies showed us that his Microsoft voctory was not due to his great skill as a lawyer, but rather because the court was stacked against Microsoft.

The ONLY benefit from that 30 days was that I lost 10 pounds, due to an inability to eat. Of course, I was late getting Christmas preparations done, the house was a mess, and I was a nervous wreck until some time into the spring, since I kept feeling like the democrats would STILL try to take the presidency from President Bush.

[RobFromGa]

those were interesting times, and also how this Freeper "found" my virtual home on Free Republic.

Happy Thanksgiving to all!

[Liz]

Ah yes, I remember it well...........that was the year David Boies received the Clearasil Award for his (ahem) legal acuity.

And isn't it interesting that of the four stooges in on that idiotic staged conference call------Daschle, Gephardt, Gore and Lieberman----three of them are no longer in office. I'd say if history is any judge, Joey is walking on banana peels.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

dead floridians vote democrats.

[BunnySlippers]

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