Justice Stevens
just wrote a memoir:
Stevens calls the application[By Bush to stop the Florida Recounty in 2000] “frivolous,” and recalls bumping into Justice Stephen Breyer at a Christmas party where the men discussed the application. “We agreed that the application was frivolous,” Stevens writes. “To secure a stay, a litigant must show that one is necessary to prevent a legally cognizable irreparable injury. Bush’s attorneys had failed to make any such showing.”
Nonetheless, on December 9, the Court granted the stay by a vote of five to four. On Dec. 12, the Court resolved the 2000 election. As Stevens puts it, “What I still regard as a frivolous stay application kept the Court extremely busy for four days.”
And shortly thereafter George W. Bush was declared the winner 5-4.
Thanks again, Supreme Court.
Rising Hegemon
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...kept the Court extremely busy for four days.”
And the country fucked for the last ten years into the infinite horizon.
as if it was EVER gonna go Gore's way. the 5 on the supreme court KNEW they could do a coup de etat judicial TO PRESERVE THEIR MAJORITY.
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