The public fallout
Many of the justices were reluctant even with time to discuss the case, although Scalia regularly declared to critics, “Get over it!”
O’Connor seemed more chastened, expressing some regret over the years that the court had taken up the dispute. The 1981 appointee of President Ronald Reagan stepped down from the court in January 2006, when she retired to care for her husband, who was struggling with Alzheimer’s disease. In 2018 she revealed that she herself had been diagnosed with the disease. She turned 93 in March and lives in Arizona.
In 2013, she told members of the Chicago Tribune editorial board she was not sure the court should have intervened.
“It took the case and decided it at a time when it was still a big election issue,” O’Connor told the Tribune. “Maybe the court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it, goodbye.’”
She added, according to the paper’s account, “Obviously the court did reach a decision and thought it had to reach a decision. It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn’t done a real good job there and kind of messed it up. And probably the Supreme Court added to the problem at the end of the day.”
http://www.cnn.com/2023/05/02/politics/bush-gore-oconnor-supreme-court-2000/index.html
Too late. Another fing SCOTUS mistake that fked up the country all the way to this day.
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