Perhaps you can point me to those conservatives supporting the usurptation of state powers by the oligarch. I don't see it. What I see is almost everybody agreeing that the issue belongs to the state legislature and the people who elect them.
The most disturbing ones, and the ones who inspired the original comment from another poster, were the "conservatives" in the Bush justice department.
"The closely watched case was an appeal by the Bush administration in a case that it lost in late 2003"
You are right about one thing - the longer this thread goes, the more posters show disagreement with this ruling. That gives me great hope.