Behind Closed Doors
Guess who’s gonna pick up the latest issue of Newsweek?
It looks like Dubya has Supreme Court Justice Anthony Scalia to thank for his new house.
A month after the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-to-4 decision for George W. Bush in the presidential election, dissenting Justice David Souter met at the Court with a group of prep-school students from Choate. He told them how frustrated he was that he couldn't broker a deal to win over one more justice -- Anthony Kennedy being the obvious candidate. "If he'd had 'one more day -- one more day,' Souter now told the Choate students, he believed he would have prevailed,'' according to an excerpt of an upcoming book by Newsweek Senior Writer David Kaplan.
…"The sands of history will show Bush won by a single vote, cast in a 5-to-4 ruling of the U.S. Supreme Court. The vote was Tony Kennedy's. One justice had picked the president.''
Justice Stephen’s line from his dissent still rings true.
Monday 09.10.2001 
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