Justice Sandra Day O’Connor was a great jurist but also had regrets about the Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore 2000 decision, according to published reports. I agree wholeheartedly with her position in The New Yorker article by Jeffrey Toobin published May 6, 2013. From Toobin’s article, she is quoted as saying: “Maybe the Court should have said, ‘We’re not going to take it, goodbye.’ ” The case effectively awarded the 2000 presidential election to George W. Bush, and she told Toobin “stirred up the public” and “gave the Court a less than perfect reputation.” Past is prologue. Reform the Supreme Court now, or our democracy will not withstand the corruption the neocon-tea party-MAGA crowd have foisted on us.

Beach Beauchamp Santa Fe