[Sir Gawain]

I wonder how the DUmmies are spinning this coup. After all, they're supposed to be about "the will of the people".

[bootless]

I haven't been to DU, but I subscribe to one of the loonier email newsletters (CLH: they thought that the Wellstone crash was a Republican plot). They are especially vile, and this was their take: "Court blocks GOP's Calif. Coup --A federal appeals court today blocked the GOP October 7 California coup ['recall election'], but stayed its order for seven days to allow an appeal. The ruling from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals follows a hearing last week in which the American Civil Liberties Union sought a postponment of the vote. The ACLU argued that election officials should have more time to replace antiquated voting machines in several California counties."

I have no comment.

[prairiebreeze]

The will of the people is only REALLY important when it serves the purpose of the Dim party. -- Otherwise, to hell with 'em.

Prairie

[demlosers]

"I wonder how the DUmmies are spinning this coup. After all, they're supposed to be about "the will of the people".

From a DUh poster:

Clever, clever CA Court!

If they are NOT using it as a precedent[Bush vs Gore Florida 2000], then the SCOTUS cannot overrule or refuse the case based on their earlier ruling saying that Florida 2000 could NOT be used as a precedent!

They would either have to:
A) take the case and independently make the same ludicrous ruling again
B) take the case and use their own ludicrous ruling as a precedent (despite them saying that no one should ever do so)
C) take the case and uphold it (in which case they would be conflicting with their ruling in Florida 2000) or
D) or not take the case at all.
As I stated above, even if they did not take the case, the debate will come to the fore, which will result in new questions about the legitimacy of the decision in Florida 2000, and therefore, the legitimacy of the Bush presidency itself.

Clever, clever CA Court! They could end up making the CA recall backfire in a big way

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Is this guy blowing smoke or what?

He thinks the 9th is being brazenly cunning.