He's taken his gloves off. That's why people are rightly frightened. Supposedly Chief Justice Rehnquist and his colleagues had hoped that history would remember them well. They would have liked that. But not as much as they liked to make sure Bush got into power.
Power is more important.
That's the name of the game. If they honestly cared more about how they'd be remembered, they wouldn't have done this. Ruling the country is a more important to them than what anyone thinks. And they naturally tried in the hearing of the oral arguments to pretend to be fair. And they had the boldness to have demanded of Boies that he tell them what is a fair standard for the re-count.