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To: butterdezillion
If I properly take your point, your fear is that State AG's require the force of a new law to do their duty. Not so. A new law is no more apt to force them to their duty than the laws presently on the books that require them to certify candidates for the ballot.

To force officials to do their legal duty A "Writ of Mandamus," may be issued by the appropriate court.

Note that not one lawsuit charging that State Officials failed in their duty to properly "vet" the candidate before certifying him eligible has been allowed in court. State judges have denied their jurisdiction or denied standing to the plaintiff, turning it to the Federal Courts, Federal Courts dismissing it to the Federal District Court in DC. and the Federal District Court in DC now required to either accept the case, or allow the appointment of a people's counsel. They have done neither.

As a practical matter, that absolved the Attorneys General of all 50 states of their responsibilty to properly certify candidates, as already required by state law.

198 posted on 01/01/2011 9:42:04 PM PST by Kenny Bunk (America can survive fools in office. It cannot long survive the fools who elect them.)
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To: Kenny Bunk

So how do we the people get out of this mess? That’s what I’m struggling to resolve in my own mind and use as a basis to suggest action that state legislatures can take on our behalf.

For instance, what can a state do to create a case where SOMEBODY would have standing so that the whole system of judges can’t just totally blow off their duty?

I keep thinking about the First Amendment phrase: the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” If we the people have no recourse BETWEEN ELECTIONS - and we’ve seen just how much the corruptocrats care about the “accountability” of elections - then the corruptocrats have no reason to fear us, which equals nothing to hold them in check. Letting Congress monitor its own ethics is one of the worst experiments we’ve tried in this country. It has created a cesspool in DC that every decent and honest person we elect seems to inevitably succomb to. These critters need to be accountable to somebdoy besides their partners-in-crime. Somebody besides the fox needs to guard the henhouse.


201 posted on 01/01/2011 10:15:20 PM PST by butterdezillion
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