Who here remembers Bush v. Gore? Who remembers the Brooks Brothers Riot to stop counting the vote? [View all]

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Who here remembers Bush v. Gore? Who remembers the Brooks Brothers Riot to stop counting the vote?

Well, we’re DUers, so anyone not actually in a coma at the time remembers the events very vividly and personally.

One by one the young lawyers involved with Team Bush and Bush v Gore rose through the ranks of highly respectable and highly right-wing legal careers. Bush v Gore not only gave us the presidency of BushCheney, but ultimately Chief Justice Roberts, Justice Brett Kavanagh, and Justice Amy Coney Barrett. I’m sure when they get together in a private setting they all bask in the warm glow of a job well done — but under actual oath at their confirmation hearings they all had a specialized sort of amnesia about those events.

So, to watch them hem and haw today about the sacredness of votes cast, and how they were horrified at the thought of electoral chaos, much less whether one state could be the deciding factor in a presidential election — my mind inescapably returned to the events of Bush v Gore.

These aren’t your grandpa’s Republicans. They’re not even conservative, whatever that means any more. The rot that has taken over the Supreme Court is unspeakable.

I hope Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson are okay — this has got to be hard for them.