Posted on 10/28/2004 6:54:15 PM PDT by wagglebee
I would like to see the State Governing bodies step up and claim their constitutional power. If Florida had done that in 2000, just let the "counting" go till Gore claimed victory and then voted to send the correct electors, it would have ended up in the House of Reps where it was constitutionally supposed to be.
Anywho, the Fla. Supremes caused the mess.
Wasn't it 7-2 with several justices writing concurring opinions?
Yes, the main issue of Bush v Gore was decided 7-2
The election was not decided by Clarence Thomas.
It was not decided by a 7-2 majority.
It was not decided by a 5-4 majority.
The election was decided by the voters of Florida and the other 49 states.
ho-hum... 5-4 decision did not decide the vote... repeating the big LIE... poor 'ol Newsmax
No, because Donald Duck is on Florida's Supreme Court!
Actually, NewsMax is just publishing an AP story.
Pardon moi, but wasn't the Supreme Court's decision all about whether or not to continue allowing the endless counting of ballots with dangling chads, even after said ballots had been counted over & over & over?
I think electors are going to be appointed as directed by the Legislatures of the several States, and that their votes are going to be counted in a special joint session of the new Congress on January 3, 2005, and that any disputes will be resolved in that session by the political process designed by the founders for that purpose.
The appointment of electors is a nonjusticeable political question, which we have institutions purpose-built to address.
It was a disastrous overreach of the Court to even hear, much less to decide, Bush v. Gore, and they should never, ever do it again.
The body appointed to count the electoral votes, Mr. Justice Thomas, is not the Supreme Court-and the Congress of the United States in joint session is not Donald Duck.
Clarence Thomas would make a great chief justice.
he didn't decide the last one! Is Thomas trying to increase the scotus powers also now?
I think if Bush wins next week Thomas (or possibly Scalia) will be elevated to Chief Justice in the spring.
The court has no place in the elections. Plain and simple.
Absolutely correct. The fact that it saw the light of day in SCOTUS will forever scar us.
Brilliant deduction! CC you're on the cutting edge, too!
The PROCESS would have worked, but somebody took it too the wrong body, due to impatience and the pressure of media hype!!! Fear of the PROCESS breaking down was also a huge factor. So they broke the PROCESS, in order to save order.
The very constitution they all swore to uphold was treated like a "living, breathing, document," and Al Gore won a victory of sorts, proving that statement of his opinion of the constitution, if not the Presidency.
Oh well... Stuff Happens!!!
1. Either the Supreme Court would bow down to their attempted election theft.
2. Or they would have to be sacrificed to their false god of liberalism by malevolent aspersions and wanton deception.
The many divisive tentacles of the liberalist are slowly ripping us apart...From the politicization of the Supreme Court, to slandering a sitting President in wartime, to attempting to divide the military with lies and doubt, to dividing friend from friend, husband from wife, family member from family member.
I suppose Satan (the father of lies) is snickering as the Democrat party does his bidding..."A house (or country) divided against itself WILL fall."
Vengeance is mine sayeth the Lord.
The Founders didn't design any process for resolving disputed appointments of presidential electors.
The someone who took it to the wrong body was named George W. Bush.
They trusted judges and lawyers, and feared the People acting through their representatives in Congress assembled. They did not fear the process breaking down-it could not break down. What they feared, and still do fear, is a sovereign People acting in their own interest and exercising the awesome power they are granted by the Constitution.
As they fear the People in matters pertaining to religion, race, criminal justice, family law, immigration and nationality, and a million other things.
In the middle ages, they said "lex orandi, lex credendi" - the law of speech is the law of belief.
Our elites, including President Bush, speak to the courts when they should speak to the People.
Bush v. Gore was an unmitigated disaster, not in its result but in the fact that it was brought, and then heard.
its actual effects have not yet been manifested, but by December 1 of this year, they will be all too clear.
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