After Casting Key Fifth Vote For Bush, Justice O’Connor Now Regrets Bush v. Gore

[Kelvin Mace]

20. Read Vincet Bugliosi's article in The Nation

http://www.thenation.com/article/none-dare-call-it-treason#

The legal issues were CRYSTAL clear. Bush alleged that the voters of Florida were being harmed by not having their votes counted. However, not a SINGLE Florida voter was a party to the suit, nor did any Florida voter bring a suit. Bush lacked standing, the most elementary issue in any litigation. This is Law 101 stuff, and yet somehow, O'Connor didn't know this? She didn't know that they were intervening in a case in which the plaintiff had no LEGAL standing in order to appoint him president by judicial fiat?

Also, I'll quote Bugliosi here:

And if the Court's five-member majority was concerned not about Bush but the voters themselves, as they fervently claimed to be, then under what conceivable theory would they, in effect, tell these voters, "We're so concerned that some of you undervoters may lose your vote under the different Florida county standards that we're going to solve the problem by making sure that none of you undervoters have your votes counted"? Isn't this exactly what the Court did?

The article is a long dissection of the Court's illegality, but I highly recommend the time be expended.

There are only two explanations for O'Connor's actions:

1) She was part of the deliberate thwarting of justice and subversion of the Constitution that Scalia was engineering.

2) She was an idiot and grossly incompetent, because you would have to be to accept Scalia's arguments and vote with him.

At Nuremberg we tried and executed judges who ruled that the Nazi regime's policies and election chicanery were legal. O'Connor illegally subverted the Constitution and appointed a man who them committed war crimes. I am not seeing that much difference here.