{"id":4074,"date":"2007-01-25T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2007-01-25T19:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=4074"},"modified":"2016-02-13T20:53:20","modified_gmt":"2016-02-14T04:53:20","slug":"scalia-on-his-2000-decision-to-award-the-presidency-to-george-w-bush-get-over-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=4074","title":{"rendered":"Scalia on His 2000 Decision to Award the Presidency to George W. Bush: ‘Get Over It’"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>AP reports<\/a> the following comments made Tuesday by the unimpeached Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia concerning his decision to overthrow American democracy in the 2000 Presidential Election:<\/p>\n

“It’s water over the deck – get over it,” Scalia said, drawing laughs from his audience.<\/div>\n

We wonder what other decisions by the SCOTUS that Americans should “get over.” We wonder if the voters of Florida who were denied their expressed intent to elect Al Gore should also “get over it.” Doubtless, the more than 3000 U.S. troops killed by George W. Bush’s unnecessary war have no choice but to “get over it.”<\/p>\n

Deceptively attempting to justify his wholly incorrect and unconstitutional decision by playing the unequally applied “Equal Protection Clause” card once again, Scalia reportedly added, “Counting somebody else’s dimpled chad and not counting my dimpled chad is not giving equal protection of the law.”<\/p>\n

Interestingly enough, Scalia and the SCOTUS have stood by and allowed all forms of un-Equal Protection in Elections ever since — from the myriad different voting systems and “standards” now used, to the myriad ways in which votes by voters in the very same county are counted differently and at different times. In other words, the repugnant democracy-hating Scalia is full of shit.<\/p>\n

As pointed out — though somewhat cryptically — in the AP piece by Mark Sherman, subsequent study of the actual ballots in the state of Florida in 2000 showed that, in fact, had all of the them actually been counted<\/em> (we know, it’s a quaint idea) Gore would have won [PDF]<\/a> the state, and thus the Presidency.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, Rolling Stone’s<\/i> Tim Dickinson says: Run, Al, Run<\/a>. We concur, and offer John Lennon’s “(Just Like) Starting Over” as our suggestion for the campaign’s victory song.<\/p>\n

(Hat-tip Michael Roston at RAW STORY<\/a>.<\/i>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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