During an interview set to air on this Sunday’s 60 Minutes, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia said that people need to get over the court’s 5-4 decision to select George Bush over Al Gore in the 2000 presidential election:
Scalia repeated his earlier statement that people should “get over” the court’s ruling in 2000 that halted Florida’s vote recount, giving the presidential election to Republican Bush over Democrat Al Gore.
“I say nonsense,” Scalia said, when asked about critics who say the 5-4 ruling was based on politics and not justice. “Get over it. It’s so old by now.” Read on…
This is an insult to America and the planet. The death and destruction that George Bush and his regime have unleashed since his selection will take decades, perhaps generations to repair and Scalia has the nerve to say something like this? Our Constitution is being shredded, our military is broken and bogged down in two failing military conflicts that have left hundreds of thousands dead, our economy is in the tank with more Americans on food stamps and lacking health insurance than at any time in modern history, and we’re supposed to get over it? No, Justice Scalia, we will not get over it — at least not any time soon.
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According to the transcript from this interview, he states that the vote was actually 7-2. I’ve never heard that before.
What’s the truth here?
Obviously a scholar in the Cheney Institute of Public Insensitivity
Fuck. What an asshole.
They appoint the worst war criminal to the White House and we are just supposed to “get over it” - what does it take to impeach a supreme court justice?
miss_kitty @ 3:
that’s exactly what I said when I first heard this nonsense!
he’s a poster boy for how our courts have been sabotaged by rightwingers.
Cufford @ 1:
from what I’ve always understood is the vote was right down party lines - 5 to 4
Just to clarify my comments above, I first saw this story linked from Raw Story, which linked to the following article which quotes him as saying that the vote was “seven to two”.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories.....0290.shtml
This why we need to elect a Democrat in November. any Democrat…Obama, Hillary, Donald Duck I don’t care who just someone who will fill the seats of sick and old current Supreme Court Justices with thirty year old, left wing folks. Then the four assholes of the right wing apocalypse ( Scalia, Scalito, Thomas and Roberts ) can lose 5-4 after 5-4 decision for the rest of their evil lives.
The Italians had the right idea when Mussolini’s gov got toppled. Lamp post ornaments.
Asshole!!!!
It was the right decision at the time. I remember to spectacle of trying to figure out what people “meant” by their ballot and the fact is that Florida was basically a statistical tie so the most efficient and fair way to decide it was to just do the count mechanically and accept whatever the outcome was. Next time it could be the other way around and your guy (or gal) might end up on top. At that time (2000) this country was pretty much split 50/50. It’s not like the overwhelming will of the people was denied. So Scalia is right, just get over it already!
My muscular butt he’s for law and order. The Supreme Court had no jurisdiction in the Florida Election. It was, by definition, a judicial coup carried out by partisans. The founding fathers would be challenging lots of people to duels if they had been around.
singe @ 9:
Given what reality tells about our federal government; that it’s utterly corrupted by money, and on both side of the aisle, I fail to understand that delusional opinion that if a Democrat is elected, Supreme Court appointments will be any different. Why would you assume this? Based upon what? Fairy tale fantasies that Democrats aren’t as beholden to the big money interests as Republicans are? That’s a nice dream, I guess.
good to be reminded of the enemy on occasion
So?!
Super-SUPER delegates.
Just get over it @ 12:
Why don’t you tell the mothers and wives of the dead soldiers to get over it? Why don’t you tell people who can’t afford food right now to get over it? Let me know when you do it, though. I want to be there to see what happens.
What a petulant little thug. No you traitor . . . we will never get over it . . . ever. What a little man.
singe @ 9:
Theres no statue on the size of the SCOTUS, it could have quite a few more members, lets put NINE extra liberals onto the bench to upset the existing status quo, then we can place bets on how long Scalia, Scalito, Thomas and Roberts decide to resign or do the decent thing. Ulcers, hand wringing and whining on Faux would be a fitting end to their careers.
Scy @ 19:
We’re at war because of this guy. He needs his nose rubbed in it every day for the rest of his miserable life.
Gore had miscalculated O’Connor’s interests and her character. Beyond a partisan desire for Bush’s election, O’Connor had strong personal reasons to block Gore’s apparent victory. According to close friends, she wants to become the first female U.S. chief justice, an ambition that she hopes President Bush will fulfill.
As I reported on Dec. 11, O’Connor was visibly upset — indeed furious — when on Election Night, Nov. 7, the networks predicted that Gore would take Florida.
“This is terrible,” she said
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2001/010701a.html
That walking Talking sack of manure should be kicked out on his fat ass by Congress….Oh Damn I forgot Our Congress doesn’t do Shite!
Cufford, all four of the most right wing appointments were made by Republicans. If you are saying the federal government is a joke and nothing will ever happen to free the oppressed until capitalism is ended and we have a socialist state as is promoted by the Sparticists and others I understand your point though I do not agree with it completely…is this your point?
Yeah, just like Scalia got over Roe v Wade, or, better example for the rest of us , Dred Scott.
Thank God even SCOTUS had the sense to refuse the Schiavo case.
What a tool he is.
“I voted to kill democracy in America. Now it is time to look forward and forgeddaboudit!”
Seems to me.. by his remarks… he must be feeling the heat. Good, we aren’t going to “get over it” so please be prepared to hear about it over and over and over again… this is your legacy and you earned it.
Get over what amounts to a stolen election and a coup?
Not on your life. What a shithead. Wonder what we’re supposed to “just get over” next? Torture?
John Dean and I aren`t over it.Read Broken Government and see what has really happened to our Federal court system and what Dean,a Republican says about the Bush criminals.
At the end of the book he asks another Republican friend what he would advise Americans.The guy responded:”Never vote for a Republican.You cannot trust a word they say.” From a life long R,that is saying where that party is.
I will never vote for a Rethug,and I will never get over it, you fucking crook.
We are witnessing a very bad part of the history of our country.
The amazing part is they are still in office and it will get worse with no accountability.
None.
They are getting a free pass and the spineless have done nothing.
There is plenty of blame to go around.
ferrofluid @ 20:
I LIKE your idea, a perfect way to disempower the neocon character of the court!
Why do so many Republican men remind me of Porky Pig? There’s Karl Rove, and Rush Limbaugh, Tony Scalia…. Pudgy jowls, I guess. Though Scalia also looks a bit like Mr. Magoo in that picture.
Scalia is a supreme douchbag. Religion informs most of HIS social views but conveniently ignores them when he’s telling the European Union they’re pussies over the death penalty.
… Scalia, who has long supported capital punishment, also ridiculed European criticism of the death penalty in the United States.
“If you took a public opinion poll, if all of Europe had representative democracies that really worked, most of Europe would probably have the death penalty today,” he said.
“There are arguments for it and against it. But to get self-righteous about the thing as Europeans tend to do about the American death penalty is really quite ridiculous,” he said.
Self righteous indeed you fat prick. I guess the Catholic church is wrong on that one but right on homosexuality.
He made clear his contempt for gay people, effectively comparing homosexuality to murder: “I had thought that one could consider certain conduct reprehensible – murder, for example, or polygamy, or cruelty to animals – and could even exhibit ‘animus’ toward such conduct,” Scalia sneered. “Surely that is the only sort of ‘animus’ at issue here: moral disapproval of homosexual conduct…”
It boggles the mind that this moron will still be passing judgement in his black robe long after society has moved way beyond his antiquated prejudice…
If the decision was based in sound law and precedent, Scalia would have cited the law and defended the decision. The fact that he gave a flip answer is further evidence that it was a political decision. History will judge the five justices poorly.
Well, this may sound a bit harsh as my children are attending universities and things look good for them. I shudder to think of parents that lost children in this war on fear and will visit their graves with the “get over it” concept in their heads.
Calling Scalia an immoral cockroach is an insult to immoral cockroaches.
Scalia not only is dumb he looks dumber. What an embarrassment to the United States this man is. I don’t remember who appointed him to the SCOTUS but may they rot in hell. We all know why Roberts and Scalito are there (wasn’t it Scalito’s wife who “cried”) and we remember why Thomas the pervert is there. May all four have a pox on them and resign because of “ill health.” I had never heard that about O’Conner but glad she was bush-wacked by Bush and didn’t get to become Chief Justice. What a hag.
He reflects that cabal’s view of America when it comes to their coup.
It was a coup. And he is/was a ring leader.
#12, when are you going to enlist? asshole.
anneyhussein @ 31:
Very well fed on the money they make breaking the backs of the working class.
singe @ 24:
Wow…talk about extrapolating and putting words into someone’s mouth. Geez, just take my words at face value; what I said.
“Why would you assume this? Based upon what?”
Your observation that Republicans have made some ostensibly bad appointments has no bearing on what future Democratic presidents would do.
I simply ask that question; on what basis do people “assume” that these “future” appointments will be good ones.
Actually, it was a rhetorical question because I know the answer. You read it all the time here on these blogs; “Democrats are good, Republican’s are bad”. That’s what people tend to believe here, but not based on any current reality whatsoever. It’s just a side to take. A hope to cling on to.
The problems in our government are systemic, to be sure, and that knowledge should temper people’s blind faith in a particular “club” that they want to believe in.
If anything, I would think that the most recent history; of the 2006 mid-terms where Democrats promised all sorts of things to get elected and then promptly did nothing of the sort since, would make some people thing more deeply about the reality of things.
That’s my only point.
The Supreme Court of the United States is not supposed to overturn an election. Scalia doesn’t sound like the thoughtful, pensive, intelligent kind of person I want on the Supreme Court. “Get over it?” No thank you, Judge Scalia.
A typical coward answer is to say “old news.” Let them put on his tomb stone, “Tried to establish a dictatorship in the United States.” We don’t plan to ever get over that.
Just get over it @ 12:
I had no idea one celled creatures could type.
The five will have live with the fact they set the country, they swore to protect, on the road to disaster. The lives lost in Iraq can also be traced back to the five Chaney stooges. Fortunately for the king stooge, Rhenquist, he did not live long enough to see the day the 4,000th solider died in Iraq.
Verum @ 44:
Yeah, and live very well indeed.
“Dick Cheney, the chairman of Haliburton, shot Supreme Court Justice Scalia in a hunting accident, and the bullet went right through him and killed Karl Rove and Tucker Carlson.” (Death from family guy)
this is a perfect example of why america has every right to be bitter
Maybe if we all get insanely lucky, Cheney and Scalia will go hunting together and the both of them will have simultaneous wild shots.
You know, death and destruction are not things that we can really “repair”. That is what makes this decision so huge. What people need to “get over” is the notion that we will be able to just fix everything Bush has done even over the course of several decades. We’ll never be able to wipe the slate clean, we just need to choose a different path and do what we can to make amends.