More Justice Scalia on Bush v. Gore

A video has surfaced of a speech Justice Scalia gave in Switzerland (the Justice ordinarily does not allow video of his speeches), and according to Marty Lederman’s post on SCOTUSblog, the Justice had this to say about Bush v. Gore:

    Scalia is characteristically combative and provocative. For instance, in response to a question about Bush v. Gore, he responds: “Come on, get over it.” He states that the real question in the case was whether the election was to be decided by the Florida Supreme Court or by the U.S. Supreme Court — “not a very hard question,” in his view — and “there was no way we could have turned that case down.” He then states that the Florida Supreme Court — but not the U.S. Supreme Court — was “politically motivated.”

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