Reply #24: Quoting from Bugliosi, pgs 46-7:

[H2O Man]

(from his "The Betrayal of America")

"As the December 25 Time capsulized it, 'A sizable number of critics, from law professors to some of the Court's own members, have attacked the ruling as ...politically motivated.' A sampling from a few law professors: Vanderbilt professor Suzanna Sherry said, 'There is really very little way to reconcile this opinion other than they wanted Bush to win.' Yale's Mar lamented that 'for Supreme Court watchers this case will be like BC and AD. For many of my colleagues, this was like the day President Kennedy was assassinated. Many of us (had) thought that courts do not act in openly political fashion.' Harvard law professor Randall Kennedy called the decision 'outrageous.' "