Yeah, that’s right you piece of shit excuse for a Supreme Court Justice. Fuck you.
Strict constructionalist? My ass. Fuck you.
(in case you hadn’t noticed, I’m a bit pissed off here)
Why the venom you may ask? Because he has decided to re-write history AGAIN and has just declared the process by which elections are decided, as outlined by the Constitution & the US Code, basically, unconstitutional when he wants it to be.
Was Bush v. Gore a “one time ruling”, or does he think SCOTUS should be the deciding factor in disputed elections?
Scalia said: “The election was dragged into the courts by the Gore people. We did not go looking for trouble.”
Really? Who filed the first lawsuit to block the recount? Ummmm… that would have been Bush. You know, ’cause a manual recount was automatically triggered by how close the original count was… oh never mind, you’d actually have to read the law to figure that one out.
“The issue was whether Florida’s Supreme Court or the United States Supreme Court [would decide the election.] What did you expect us to do? Turn the case down because it wasn’t important enough?”
No, how about following precedent and the LAW, oh wise one? Florida’s votes were the jurisdiction of the FLORIDA Supreme Court, not SCOTUS.
And how about the fact that esteemed legal scholars, from both the left and the right, completely disagreed with you and your rightwing minions?
The conservative justice… contended there would have been a difficult transition had the court not stepped in.
Okay, I’m about to blow a gasket here… I’m having flashbacks now and my blood pressure is rising… I need to be talked down and QUICK.
A “Difficult transition”? Really? Man, those Founders must have been on crack and not known what they were doing when they laid out the process for handling disputed elections… right? Hmmm… but how does that jive with your view that they knew EXACTLY what they were doing and the courts shouldn’t try to INTERPRET the Constitution/ law but to follow it to the letter…. changing times be damned… it doesn’t of course and you are full of shit.
So let me get this straight… Scalia has just said that SCOTUS’s job is to step in and decide cases based on what they THINK would be “easiest” for the country vs. the actual LAW. No wonder he’s Bush’s ideal justice.
Let me ask you a question oh esteemed nutbar… ever heard of Title 3 of the US Code? You know, the law which governs those “difficult transistions”… of course not, that would mean your OPINION wouldn’t matter.
And finally, the man just isn’t smart enough to be on the Supreme Court…
He also pointed out that studies by news organizations after the election showed Bush still would have won a Florida recount.
Really? Or is it still up in the air based on which votes were counted? And let alone the racist tactics used by the President’s brother in disqualifying voters… which in and of itself was AGAINST THE LAW.
And hey, we wouldn’t have had to rely on the news organizations to count the votes if you and your fellow brownshirts hadn’t STOPPED the legal recount by the ELECTION OFFICALS.
Which leads me back to… Fuck you Scalia. History will not treat you well.
