Retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor says she has second thoughts on whether the Supreme Court should have accepted Bush v. Gore -- the deeply controversial case that effectively decided the 2000 presidential election.
"It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big election issue," O'Connor told theChicago Tribune editorial board last Friday. "Maybe the court should have said, 'We're not going to take it, goodbye.'"In a 5-4 decision at the time, O'Connor voted with the four other Republican-appointed justices to shut down the recount in Florida, the decisive state in the election."Obviously the court did reach a decision and thought it had to reach a decision," the retired justice told the Tribune editorial board. "It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn't done a real good job there and kind of messed it up. And probably the Supreme Court added to the problem at the end of the day."
we all know it was a robbery of federal proportions. we have seen how really right wing Fla. is in spite of the republican war on them, are all senile do you retire their and get a fee lobotomy?
what took her so long to clear her conscious?
The Reagan-appointed former justice, who was the pivotal swing vote in many key cases prior to her retirement, has since seen parts of her judicial legacy unravel on issues like abortion, campaign finance and race-based government policies, thanks in part to her Bush-appointed successor, Samuel Alito.
wonder what her mindset was while she was helping to cheat Americans out of a fair and honest election?
