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Thursday, April 24, 2008 by Doc Logan
“Fat Tony” Scalia says we should get over Bush v. Gore. “I say nonsense, get over it. It’s so old by now. The principal issue in the case, whether the scheme that the Florida Supreme Court had put together violated the federal Constitution, that wasn’t even close.” Right, it’s old. So we can forget about all that Jesus stuff, to paraphrase Bill Hicks. “It was Al Gore who made it a judicial question ... We didn’t go looking for trouble, it was he who said, ‘I want this to be decided by the courts’. What are we supposed to say—‘Not important enough?’ “ Um, Antonin? I know this is esoteric legal knowlege, and you’re merely an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court and not expected to know this sort of thing, but the name of the case is “Bush v. Gore”. The name of the petitioner goes first. The petitioner is the person who brings the lawsuit, and that person, in this case, is George W. Bush. He is the one who made it a judicial question. So, Antonin, you’re either a liar or an idiot. Or there’s the very real chance that you’re both. In any case, there’s no reason you should be allowed to decide any matter more weighty than Paper v. Plastic. (And yes, Paper is the petitioner.) |
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