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LisaM

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19. What an awful day.

Reply to GoreWon2000 (Original post)

Thu Dec 12, 2024, 09:33 PM

Thursday

And at least four of the Supremes should have recused themselves.

Clarence Thomas - wife was on W's inauguration committee
Scalia - son worked at the firm that represented Bush in Bush v. Gore
Sandra Day O'Connor - was openly upset at an election party that Gore might win because then she couldn't retire (so she admitted she had skin in the game)
Rehnquist - his daughter was given a job in the Bush administration

I could give Rehnquist a bit of a pass because his daughter was given a job afterwards, but his clear prejudice on voting rights should have disqualified him.

It was so unfair and so shocking.

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