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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Karen Lawrence who wrote (767385)	4/25/2008 10:37:11 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 769670

Scalia's reply People who think the U.S. Supreme Court's decision giving the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush was politically motivated should just get over it, Justice Antonin Scalia tells the CBS News program "60 Minutes." Justice Scalia denies the decision was political and discusses other aspects of his public and private life in a taped interview with "60 Minutes" correspondent Lesley Stahl to be shown Sunday. "I say nonsense," Justice Scalia responds to Mrs. Stahl's observation that people say the Supreme Court's decision in Gore v. Bush was based on politics and not justice. "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. The vote was seven to two," he says, referring to the Supreme Court's decision that the Supreme Court of Florida's method for recounting ballots was unconstitutional. Furthermore, he said, it 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 Justice Scalia. "What are we supposed to say — 'Not important enough?' " The above comments were published yesterday at www.cbsnews.com.