Scalia on Bush v. Gore: ‘Get over it!’
This Sunday, CBS’s 60 Minutes will air an interview with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who discards his usual disdain for the press to hawks his new book, “Making Your Case: The Art of Persuading Judges.” When reporter Leslie Stahl asks about the infamous Bush v. Gore decision, Scalia lashes out, “Get over it. It’s so old by now.” Watch it:
Scalia has said in the past, “I and my court owe no apology whatever for Bush versus Gore. We did the right thing. So there.”
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The bastard is still “running” this country. It ain’t over ’til it’s over. And then we have decades of cleanup and generations of debt.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:33 pmfletc3her your right saying he is bastard, he sure not a human,not even a person of any respect. Just another Dead Beat friend of Bush.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:44 pmALL the damage that has been done to this nation in the last seven years sits squarely on his, and the court’s shoulders.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:44 pmUh huh, when Scalia and his ilk “get over” the Roe v. Wade decision.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:44 pmWhen the SOB is cleaning pissoirs in Leavenworth I want to be in line to tell him to “get over it.”
April 24th, 2008 at 9:44 pmA slap in the face of jurist’s prudence.
What a disgrace…
April 24th, 2008 at 9:46 pmFat Tony “The Fixer” Scalia sez,”Fuhgeddaboudit!”
April 24th, 2008 at 9:49 pmQuite an arrogant little fu(k, isn’t he?!
Is there any way the citizens of the United States (or Congress) can vote to remove a Supreme Court Justice? If there is, then I say he’s the first motherfu(ker to go!
April 24th, 2008 at 9:53 pmGL2814 Says:
April 24th, 2008 at 9:53 pm
They can be impeached.
April 24th, 2008 at 9:55 pmVaFANculo, paisan…
April 24th, 2008 at 10:01 pmIt was O’Connor who ‘elected’ Bush.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:03 pmI really hope she never passes another restful night again as long as she lives…
Scalia would make better worm food than he does a Supreme Court Justice.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:13 pmDidn’t Scalia graduate first in his class from the “Dick Cheney School of Political Charm?”
I forget - is the school motto “So?” or “Go fu(k yourself?”
Either way, it looks like he learned his lessons well.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:16 pmScalia has a place in hell with his best friend Dick Cheney.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:20 pmSlapsy “Little Pussy” Thomas sez, “Yeh, yeh, Boss. Fuhgeddaboudit, yeh!”
April 24th, 2008 at 10:22 pmAnother boychild thug. Impeach him, too.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:29 pmGo Cheney Yourself. You are responsible for Putting Bush in the White house. Show me in the constutition where you have the power to do this. You are responsible for the misadventure in Iraq and 4000 dead soldiers. I hope you die a miserble death. You are the freaking scum of the earth!
April 24th, 2008 at 10:30 pmMore judges have been impeached than any other office in past history.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:30 pmSomething Scaliwag might want to read about.
I doubt that any of the Miss-Justices that ruled in W’s favor will be alive when the next GOP administration is elected.
April 24th, 2008 at 10:30 pmWith Pelosi wanting give Bush another $172 Billion for the Iraq occupation, Hillary working for AIPAC/Likud, and the spineless Senate, I hope a major change is made in November because this crew is like the Three Stooges, Moe the president (Quiet Numbskulls…I’m deciding), Curly the Senate (Nyuk! Nyuk! Sorry Moe, it was an accident…..We never have the 2/3 majority), and Larry The Congress (Leave the kid alone…..we need more money for Moe’s business deal)
April 24th, 2008 at 10:41 pmIt was Al Gore who ultimately put the issue into the courts. “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,’” says Scalia. “What are we supposed to say — ‘Not important enough?’” he jokes.
The fact that he can joke about such an important decision is so insulting. I personally don’t find anything funny about it. It cost us the 2000 election; that’s 4 years we will never get back.
They have got to get rid of some of the conservatives on the Supreme Court. Does anyone know if any of them are due to leave anytime soon???
April 24th, 2008 at 10:50 pmhttp://www.amazon.com/ Betrayal-America-Undermined-Constitution-President/ dp/ 156025355X
Aw, but who cares what Bugliosi sez about bad guys, right? Free Charlie!
April 24th, 2008 at 11:01 pmFreedom Rebel Says:
They have got to get rid of some of the conservatives on the Supreme Court. Does anyone know if any of them are due to leave anytime soon???
April 24th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Somebody call the grim reaper… ;)
April 24th, 2008 at 11:10 pmIf ever “We the People” should lose our country it will first be through the usurpation of our Justice Department. Once that is done, all that is illegal is legal for those with privilege and power.
“Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” - Justice Louis Brandeis
April 24th, 2008 at 11:13 pmGet over it??? As selecting a president by the SCOTUS is highly unconstitutional, this guy and a few others need to be impeached from their office.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:28 pmScalia needs to go hunting with Dead Eye Dick more often.
April 24th, 2008 at 11:52 pmPlease someone, tell me this guy is like 78 or 87 or something….look, ….just lie to me ok?!?!?!
April 24th, 2008 at 11:59 pmFreedom Rebel Says:
“…The fact that he can joke about such an important decision is so insulting…”
April 24th, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Exactly. He selected the “ruler of the free world”, the most important position on the planet, and wants people to “get over it.” He (and his “brethren”) changed the course of history, and wants it to be forgotten. Never! What a scumbag.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:05 amKilo, regardless of how most of us feel about Bush, Gore, Scalia, and the disastrous results of the Supremes’ decision, Scalia is a freaking idiot simply for saying “Get over it. It’s so old by now.” The Supreme Court decision is 8 years old. Does this man have no conception of history, and the role of Supreme Court Justices throughout American history? History will not treat this bloodsucker kindly. He does not deserve the robes he wears.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:14 amGet over it ? . . heh heh . .not tonite justice . . (V pulls out sharp instrument while justice begs for own life).
April 25th, 2008 at 12:18 am“Get over it. It’s so old by now.”
Other things which need to be gotten over, because they are old by now:
The Holocaust
April 25th, 2008 at 12:22 amKosovo
Iraq
al Kaida
bush’s stupidity
WW2
democracy in America
“Scalia has said in the past, “I and my court owe no apology whatever for Bush versus Gore. We did the right thing. So there.””
You know, he sounds so intelligent and smart.
What is the qualification for becoming a Supreme court judge?
April 25th, 2008 at 12:24 amrepublican party membership?
Lifetime appointments have a serious downside - maybe that should be changed.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:31 amScalia has to be the worst Justice. Maybe Sooter, but Scalia is a joke.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:31 amI would dare him to visit ANY fallen soldier’s family and say that to their face. “Get over the fact that I helped install the man who got your son killed in vain. Oh, and by the way, you’re welcome!”
April 25th, 2008 at 12:44 am.
Now, Let’s all wait in anticipation of the McCain selection…
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April 25th, 2008 at 1:15 amAs a progressive, I am shocked that I agree with this Justice in nearly everything he says. And I think he’s being honest in this interview snippet. He is still dead wrong, though, and his (willful?) ignorance is unnerving.
This is not a Judicial matter. Nor is it Legislative, nor Executive. This matter is Electoral. The Electoral College has original jurisdiction, Constitutionally, in this and like matters, with the Supreme Court only empowered to hear appeals.
This Justice, and the others who voted these imbeciles into Power, should be impeached for missing or ignoring that and voting on this matter before the Electoral College had met. These Justices also thereby misappropriated powers granted to another branch of Government, an undeniably impeachable offense.
Morally, they are also responsible to us all and to themselves for unleashing this disastrous regime on the World.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:24 amSounds like “SO” again, don`t it? And coming from a Supreme Court Justice at that!
April 25th, 2008 at 1:30 amThis animals’s “Get over it”, get over a stolen election, equals Chenney’s “So?” remark… What an animal!
April 25th, 2008 at 2:10 amI hate to say it Max-1, but I’m afraid you’re right.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:17 amAt that point, if there’s no physical retaliation from the masses, it’s time to move.
Lamp posts across the nation are crying out for fat arrogant traitorous phucks to swing from them. Benedict Arnold isn’t forgotten, Fat Tony. Neither will you.
April 25th, 2008 at 2:25 amHis every vigilant a**hole persona is exactly what the highest court in the land shouldn’t be projecting. Why can’t he just keep his mouth shut in public like the overall majority of other SC Justices.
April 25th, 2008 at 5:39 amCan a Justice without a conscience dispense justice?
April 25th, 2008 at 6:51 amScalia is the ass-end of the RATS:
Roberts
April 25th, 2008 at 8:14 amAlito
Thomas
Scalia
RUCerious Says:
ALL the damage that has been done to this nation in the last seven years sits squarely on his, and the court’s shoulders.
Tha is why the “jurists” snuck out in the middle of the night with no public comment on the decision. It was not a case that even should have been heard by that court.
It IS Called BUSH v GORE…BECAUSE the puss Bush brought suit AGAINST Gore. Not Gore suing Bush.
And he most hysterical thing about the whole case is that BUSH had NOT STANDING to bring the lawsuit. HE was NOT a citizen of Florda, and he case revolved around how Bush was whining about the unfairness of the Fla voting law..remember hanging chads and recounts. I think the statement SCUMLIA is touting is, once again, he exact opposite of what a Neocon says. He wishes he would have said those words to Bush. He has to voice them to someone, they have been eating at his soul since 2000. And for good reason. YOU SHOWED THE WORLD YOUR UGLY SOUL YOU NEO-CON BASTARD.
I have your noose right here you Fu(ker. I can’t wait till we storm your fu(kg office and hang your ass.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:12 amScalia is doing everything he can to DISMANTLE the Constitution. That’s why he was placed there to begin with. With his little toady Clarence Thomas, they are determined to push this Neocon bullshit. And the arrogance! The man has no humility whatsoever. I think he should go duck hunting with Cheney again. Maybe Ol’ Drunkey will miss the birds (again).
April 25th, 2008 at 9:35 amScalia states “We did the right thing.” But, was it constitutionally allowed? No. “Right” is such a subjective concept. How utterly sad Scalia passes for a SCOTUS justice. Being tagged “brilliant” is not a substitute for ruling based on The Constitution of the United States of America.
April 25th, 2008 at 9:52 amSo there!
Va fan culo, Judge.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:18 amMy god- what a major A$$hole.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:22 amThat man is unfit to be a judge. He needs to get over himself.
April 25th, 2008 at 11:36 amGuilty conscience much, Mr. Scalia?
April 25th, 2008 at 11:55 amSince we are still living under President George W. Bush, it ain’t over. And we will be living under the harm done illegally by Scalia and his cohorts for another generation. Including all the costs of Iraq, Americans will have to pay $6 TRILLION for his actions.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:52 pmClearly, “That is so old by now” or phrases similar, is used more often than not by Conservatives. They count on people not having the ability to recall, with detail, the travesties they have placed on this country in the past 8 years.
They also apply this “Old by now” excuse to the Constitution, the Bill of Rights (except for uncontrolled gun laws, that still seems valid), but other freedoms are taken because they are ” out dated” and the original framers of the constitution could never have conceived our world and it’s threats today.
Basically, they skirt the law, or change them, or reinterpret them, to their whims and needs.
Scalia and people like him should be tarred and feathered! There is a fitting, yet old punishment, that I think is deserved.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:21 pmHey Nino! Try on these cement shoes.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:25 pmScalia sounds like a skin disease.
April 25th, 2008 at 1:26 pmIn these times in America. It seems our Supreme Court Justices would be more Court and less SUPREME.
Scalia has arrogantly insulted, inflamed, and embarrassed the issue of torture when he spoke at a Euro judicial gig.
When he Tells Americans to “Get over it” while garnering his pay from those very same Americans, he should consider his arrogance.
There is a difference between explaining a legal decision and expressing loathesomeness for those he believes he rules over by letting his position as Supreme Court Justice inflate his ego.
My question to Scalia,
Sir, are you more avital a human being than a private in the Army serving in Iraq?
Sir, are you more important a human being than the citizen that that makes this society work and pays your wages in a trust you will perform your part earnestly and not pompously?
April 25th, 2008 at 9:13 pmNinito once told a critical audience-member at a college to “get a life”. Was he pathetically attempting to be hip? He is probably clueless as to the correct usage, and usual context, of such putdowns . . . although in this case it actually was a good choice, by this infamously condescending prick. (The putdown “get a life!” is often used by someone who is being lazy and clueless, failing to grasp some point raised by their “lifeless” target.)
Scalia loves to be flippant. Perhaps that explains his nonchalance about the installation of George the Usurper. One must wonder, however, how this nation will, if ever, “get over” the results of the lazy and impetuous action by Scalia and his like-minded colleagues in Bush v. Gore.
I paste below my comments from 2005, following a profile of this purportedly great mind. (FYI, the piece mentioned his love of theatrics during his college years.)
Making Light
– a reaction to “Supreme Confidence”, Margaret Talbot’s March 28 New Yorker profile of Antonin Scalia.
Nino Scalia is clever, but is he brilliant? Maybe so – because he’s managed to convince himself and others, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, that he’s intellectually consistent.
As a purported conservative and “non-activist” judge, he advocates deference to the legislative branch(es). . . but cares not for legislative histories that can illuminate the intended purpose of [often clumsily-drafted] statutes. He likewise professes respect for those powers “reserved to the States”, but was more than happy to run roughshod over Florida’s vote-counting apparatus in 2000. (This should be his great Bush v. Gore embarrassment, not the fact that the opinion was of limited scope.)
Nixon’s tapes, he said, should have been rightly off limits, yet he professes an understanding of Checks and Balances. (In his love of metaphor, Nino the absolutist tends to ignore material differences of degree: Hence, water and fire are, in themselves, necessary and good; flood and conflagration, however, are bad. Nevertheless, he acknowledges no circumstance in which anything short of limitless executive privilege is acceptable or desirable.)
Perhaps Nino should have remained an entertainer; or, more accurately, perhaps he should have confined himself to those stages officially designated as theatrical. A sense of humor, even when bordering on cheekiness, is welcome in a jurist. Jehovah knows: As one who briefly practiced law, I certainly welcomed that rare trait when I found it. (And many a lawyer and law student has been happily diverted by those published opinions in which the bench takes a gratuitous, amusing digression. In one of my all-time favorites, the federal court pondered the definition, and applicability, of the term chutzpah.) However, neither cheek nor chutzpah should ever supercede intellectual rigor or intellectual honesty. The avowedly religion-oriented Nino (who, in my humble opinion, is extremely results-oriented) spouted, in Lee v. Weisman, that “Church and state would not be such a difficult subject if religion were, as the Court apparently thinks it to be, some purely personal avocation that can be indulged entirely in secret, like pornography.” (He certainly has the stones to kill more than one bird at a time.) What Nino The Entertainer apparently forgot (or would have his audience overlook) is the fact that no serious church/state separatist has ever advocated a law or policy that would prevent like-minded believers from voluntarily coming together – in a church, synagogue, temple, mosque or living-room of their choice – for worship, discussion or “Bingo!” (to quote one of Nino’s pithier contributions to oral argument before the Court.) This kind of attempted grift (and flippancy) is worthy of a con man, not a Supreme Court justice.
I’m no absolutist, so I give credit where credit is due; I applaud Nino for his occasional judge-like impartiality (such as letting a few weirdos burn a flag if they so desire to express themselves.) All in all, however, it’s fascinating that the young Georgetown valedictorian saw himself as a “hunter” for Truth. (Think Nimrod, not Diogenes.) This benighted hunter is armed with bull, and loaded for bear.
He makes much light, but sheds little.
J.D. Glick, J.D.
April 26th, 2008 at 5:52 pmaka Liberal Dose,
2005
“It is confidence in the men and women who administer the judicial system that is the true backbone of the rule of law. Time will one day heal the wound to that confidence that will be inflicted by today’s decision. One thing, however, is certain. Although we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year’s Presidential election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear. It is the Nation’s confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law.”
(Bush v. Gore (2000), dissenting opinion of Justice Stevens)
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:54 pm