Second Circuit Judge Tells It Like It Is: Bush Is Illegitimate

[BurtWorm]

From the conservative NY Sun (which is why audible gasps are given prominent play :eyes: ) . Thanks to CLG for bringing this story to my attention.


http://daily.nysun.com/Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/06/21&ID=Ar00101

AUDIENCE GASPS AS JUDGE LIKENS ELECTION OF BUSH TO RISE OF IL DUCE

2nd Circuit?s Calabresi Also Compares Bush?s Rise to That of Hitler

By JOSH GERSTEIN Staff Reporter of the Sun



WASHINGTON ? A prominent federal judge has told a conference of liberal lawyers that President Bush?s rise to power was similar to the accession of dictators such as Mussolini and Hitler.

?In a way that occurred before but is rare in the United States?somebody came to power as a result of the illegitimate acts of a legitimate institution that had the right to put somebody in power.That is what the Supreme Court did in Bush versus Gore. It put somebody in power,? said Guido Calabresi, a judge on the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, which sits in Manhattan.

?The reason I emphasize that is because that is exactly what happened when Mussolini was put in by the king of Italy,? Judge Calabresi continued, as the allusion drew audible gasps from some in the luncheon crowd Saturday at the annual convention of the American Constitution Society.

?The king of Italy had the right to put Mussolini in, though he had not won an election, and make him prime minister. That is what happened when Hindenburg put Hitler in. I am not suggesting for a moment that Bush is Hitler. I want to be clear on that, but it is a situation which is extremely unusual,? the judge said.

Judge Calabresi, a former dean of Yale Law School, said Mr. Bush has asserted the full prerogatives of his office, despite his lack of a compelling electoral mandate from the public.