Sandra Day O'Connor recently said she's having doubts about Bush vs. Gore. In a recent interview. Sandra Day O'Connor, the retired Supreme Court Justice, said she's not sure the court should have heard the Bush v. Gore case.

Sandra Day O'Connor voted with the majority in the Bush vs. Gore case in 2000, ending the presidential election recount. But O'Connor talked about her doubts in the case recently, saying "Maybe the court should have said, 'We're not going to take it, goodbye.'"

The ruling by the Supreme Court overturned a previous decision by the Florida Supreme Court that ordered a recount of state ballots. Republican George W. Bush was declared winner of the Presidential election over Democrat Al Gore, with a very narrow 537-vote margin in the state.

"It turned out the election authorities in Florida hadn't done a real good job there and kind of messed it up", O'Connor told the Chicago Tribune. O'Connor also acknowledged her own possible culpability in the case, suggesting that the Supreme Court may have also had some role, saying "and probably the Supreme Court added to the problem at the end of the day."

Ralph Nader was pleased as punch by the remarks. "Sandra Day O'Connor is right to express a variety of doubts about this judicial coup d'état," Nader said to the U.S. News. "The brazen Bush v. Gore 5-4 selection of George W. Bush was the most partisan, political, constitutionally violative decision in American legal history."

Some have blamed Nader for Bush's win, saying his Green Party candidacy siphoned off valuable votes from the Democrats. But he denied culpability, saying "It was not the voters for the Green Party that decided this election," Nader added. "It was the Scalia gang of five that put Bush in the White House."

O'Connor also remarked that her decision "stirred up the public" and "gave the court a less than perfect reputation."

Democrats were shocked and infuriated by the decision; their candidate, Al Gore, had won the national popular vote. They lost in the Electoral College, however, because Florida's 25 electoral votes were awarded to Bush.

O'Connor was the first female Supreme Court justice, appointed to the by President Ronald Reagan in 1981; she retired from the position in 2006.