Any effort by Ms.Harris to stop the hand counting before it is completed would be preemptory and purely partisan."
NYT Editorial, 11/15/00
Although we may never know with complete certainty the winner of this year's election, the identity of the loser is perfectly clear :
It is the Nation's confidence in the judge as the impartial guardian of the rule of law"
Justice John Paul Stevens
"When the cops join the robbers, we have a problem. Right-wing voters can be divided into two groups - the self-interested and the stupid.
When the courts help the robbers, we have a crisis.
When our highest court becomes complicit in the robbery, we have a disaster."
Alan M. Dershowitz
In true Venn diagram style, George W. Bush seems to fall into both.