Kennedy is also one of the “Felonious Five” who installed George W. Bush in the White House.
They got the nickname “Felonious Five” from Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor who put Charles Manson away for life. See his essay None Dare Call It Treason in The Nation, January 18, 2001. It begins:
In the December 12 [2000] ruling by the US Supreme Court handing the election to George Bush, the Court committed the unpardonable sin of being a knowing surrogate for the Republican Party instead of being an impartial arbiter of the law. If you doubt this, try to imagine Al Gore’s and George Bush’s roles being reversed and ask yourself if you can conceive of Justice Antonin Scalia and his four conservative brethren issuing an emergency order on December 9 stopping the counting…
