Bush's 2000 Recount Lawyer Set To Blast Bush In Speech

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/11/08/bushs-2000-recount-lawyer-set-to-blast-bush-in-speech

Bush’s 2000 recount lawyer set to blast Bush in speech.

Barry Richard, the lawyer who “achieved fame for his successful representation of George Bush in the Bush v. Gore recount suits, is set to give a speech blasting the Bush administration Saturday night” at the National Association of Former U.S. Attorneys’ (NAFUSA) annual conference. There will also be a panel discussion featuring two of the ousted U.S. attorneys. The National Law Journal reports:

“I’m sure people will see my name on the program and expect I will be defending the administration,” said Richard, a Tallahassee, Fla., lawyer.

“But I’m a constitutional lawyer. I am concerned with the Bush administration’s assault on American liberties … how the administration deals with habeas corpus and the administration’s posture on electronic surveillance. This administration has gone farther than any other.”

Another rat looking for CYA.

...too fuckin' late to be concerned, asshole. :spank:

He wasn't too concerned about American liberties when he was defending *

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“But I’m a constitutional lawyer. I am concerned with the Bush administration’s assault on American liberties …
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Better than keeping one's head in the sand (or somewhere else).

Never ask a question to which you do not know the answer

I wish this guy would have asked himself in 2000?

what kind of president will my client be?
is my client worthy of trust?

ah bugger it all, some other shark would've done it

along ideological grounds. At the time, Sandra Day O'Connor was looking for any argument at all to give Bush the Presidency, whether a well-reasoned legal argument or not.

Honestly, I'm glad he's saying it, but 2000 was one of the worst moments I can remember.

Too little, too late Barry.

I know someone will correct me post haste.

And he's astonished today that the people's Constitutional rights have been assaulted? What the hell did he think would happen?

It's nice this guy is speaking out now but it's about seven years too late. What about our right to choose our president in a fair and honest election?

Bill Maher remarked that he almost got his ass fired from ABC for calling Bush a moron, and this was in 1999. Maher saw Bush coming, but he didn't?

:eyes:

Can't we just wait another 7 years and all get along?