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

[Kelvin Mace]

40. No, this was a case the SCOTUS

had no business in. Bugliosi goes into great detail about how the Scalia 5 pissed on every prior ruling they had made on the 14th Amendment and "state's rights". Scalia in particular (with O'Connor often concurring) hammered that the rules of how votes are counted are STRICTLY a state matter, not a federal one, and certainly NOT a federal court.

The actions taken by O'Connor et al, crossed the line into actual treason. And Bugliosi is no "left-wing hippy", he is an establishment Republican and a successful prosecutor (he put the Manson Family in jail). Bugliosi' was moved to write the book when he complained about Bush v. Gore to colleagues who agreed with him, but said that since the "right guy" won, no harm, no foul.

So, when you commit treason and appoint a guy president who later turns out to be a war criminal, I think I am being more than fair in saying she has blood on her hands which will not wash off with a half-assed expression of regret.

They decided Bush had standing and set that precedent.

No, they specifically state in their ruling that their ruling ONLY applies to this case, Bush getting handed the election by the SCOTUS in 2000:

"Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances, for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities."

Translation: Don't try this with any Democrats, we will rule against you the other way.

And let's not forget the conflict of interest and nakedly partisan comments:

On the eve of the election Sandra Day O'Connor had made a public statement that a Gore victory would be a personal disaster for her. Clarence Thomas' wife was so intimately involved in the Bush campaign that she was helping to draw up a list of Bush appointees more or less at the same time as her husband was adjudicating on whether the same man would become the next President. Finally, Antonin Scalia's son was working for the firm appointed by Bush to argue his case before the Supreme Court, the head of which was subsequently appointed as Solictor-General.

Stephen Foster
The Judiciary, Civil Liberties and Human Rights