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Posted by josh on November 07, 19102 at 18:14:20:
In Reply to: Scalia Will Keynote ETHICS Conference... what a joke! posted by Angela Johnson on September 07, 19101 at 18:12:02:
This is just name-calling. Have you read Bush v. Gore? Do you have a quarrel with an actual argument from it? DOnt' accuse Justice Scalia or anyone else of partisanship until you actually read what they say and why. It so happens that many Constitutional scholars believe the court got it right.
Just because Gore lost the election (as later recounts have now confirmed is 100% the case) is no reason to get angry at Justice Scalia. He applied the law as he saw it, and he was flatly not partisan in doing so. Read the opinion before you shoot off your mouth.
Final note: Suppose that the Court was split 5-4 on the liberal side, and the positions were reversed, so that it was Gore who was ahead (and in fact had gotten more votes, as we now know). Would you be angry at Justice Souter for "giving" the election to Gore? No... Your beef with Scalia is therefore a matter of politics, and completely unrelated to anything other than your own sour gs.
have a nice day.
: According to Vince Bugliosi, "Having Justice
: Antonin Scalia speak on ethics is like having
: a prostitute speak on ual abstinence.
: Scalia was the leader of the five Supreme
: Court Justices who, on December 12, committed
: one of the biggest and most serious crimes in
: American history when they stopped the recount
: in Florida, took the election away from the
: American people, and handed it to George Bush.
: In a fair and just world, Scalia should only be
: speaking from behind prison bars, not at a
: distinguished American University. After he
: did what he did how dare he have the stratospheric
: audacity to speak about ethics? Scalia is a
: disgrace to the judiciary and to the legal
: profession." VoterMarch.org is organizing a
: protest - New Yorkers, let's turn out in force!
: http://www.votermarch.org/ScaliaProtest.htm