In the December 12 ruling by the US Supreme Court handing the election to
George Bush, the Court committed the unpardonable sin of being a knowing
surrogate for the Republican Party instead of being an impartial arbiter of the
law. If you doubt this, try to imagine Al Gore's and George Bush's roles being
reversed and ask yourself if you can conceive of Justice Antonin Scalia and his
four conservative brethren issuing an emergency order on December 9 stopping the
counting of ballots (at a time when Gore's lead had shrunk to 154 votes) on the
grounds that if it continued, Gore could suffer "irreparable harm," and then
subsequently, on December 12, bequeathing the election to Gore on equal
protection grounds. If you can, then I suppose you can also imagine seeing a man
jumping away from his own shadow, Frenchmen no longer drinking wine.
http://surge.ods.org/idle_politics/nonedarecallittreason.htm
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