O'CONNOR PROTEST AT 92nd
STREET Y
February 17, Sunday, 7:00 pm,
92 St. Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
New York, NY"This
is Terrible!" These were the infamous words of Sandra Day
O'Connor on hearing
that Gore had won the election. Then once the election was thrown
into uncertainty and the Florida was set to count the votes by
hand in order to ascertain the real winner, Justice O'Connor along
with four others in a bare majority stopped the counting of the
votes in a Supreme Court decision that even many conservative
scholars view as a travesty. As Justice Stevens said in his
stinging minority opinion"...the loser [in this Supreme Court
decision] is perfectly clear...confidence in ...the rule of
law." Please join us at 7 p.m. this Sunday in protesting
Sandra Day O'Connor when she speaks at the 92nd St. "Y"
by gathering Lexington Ave. and 92nd St. at the designated protest
area. Please bring your own signs.
Quotes from the Bar and
academia:
"Although we
may never know with complete certainty the
identity of the winner of this year’s
presidential election, the identity of the loser
is perfectly clear. It is the nation’s
confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian
of the law."
--John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme
Court Justice, Dissent
Opinion on Florida Vote
Recount.
"The Supreme Court decision
effectively handing the presidency to George W. Bush reveals the
intensely partisan nature of the
Court's current majority. The Court, to be sure, has always been
political, but rarely as blatantly as today. Nor are there many
precedents for Justices trampling on their own previous
convictions to reach a predetermined conclusion."
–Prof. Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton
Professor of History, Columbia University
"By stopping the vote
count in Florida, the United States
Supreme Court used its
power to act as political partisans, not just judges of a
court of law. We are professors at 137 American law schools,
from every part of our country, of different political
beliefs. But we all agree that when a bare majority of the
U.S. Supreme Court halted the recount of ballots under Florida
law, the five justices were acting as political proponents for
candidate Bush, not as judges."
-Statement of 637 Law Professors
lawprofs@the-rule-of-law.com
"[The Supreme Court
majority in Bush v. Gore has] made it impossible for citizens
of the United States to sustain any kind of faith in the rule
of law as something larger than the self-interested political
preferences of William Rehnquist, Antonin Scalia, Clarence
Thomas, Anthony Kennedy, and Sandra Day O'Connor."
-Prof. Jeffrey Rosen,
George Washington University Law School
ENDORSERS
LIST:
Voter
March (National)
Voter
March New York
Democrats.com
Democracy March
Endorsers are
responsible for notifying their membership and helping to mobilize
protestors. If your organization wants to be listed as an
endorser, please email to OConnorProtest@votermarch.org
We will also hot link to your website.
ADDITIONAL
INFORMATION AND VOLUNTEERS:
To join the Planning Committee,
call the Voter March Hotline at 212-492-5175 or
email to
OConnorProtest@votermarch.org .
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