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which only corrected the interference to comport with the clear language of the Constitution

What clear language is that?

Look, I am a convinced, passionate opponent of Bush v. Gore, on many levels. The Constitution vested the Florida Legislature with the power to appoint electors. I am convinced that they would have done so.

It was up to Congress, not SCOTUS, to resolve this dispute. Given that the Congress had Republican majorities, it is a certainty that Bush would have been (legitimately) elected some time prior to 1/20/01. It is possible (barely) that Lieberman would have been VP.

In any event, expanding further the already grotesquely expanded power of SCOTUS was then, and still is, a bad idea.

You might want to actually this, where I set it out at the time. The Constitution clearly states that the legislators of each state are to prescribe. The Florida Supreme Court, in order to achieve its desired political goal, made up an imaginary, supposed statutory conflict that did not exist and used that imaginary conflict to contravene the clear prescription of the Florida legislature and moved the date set by the legislature. The U. S. Supreme Court upheld the language of the Constitution and made Florida adhere to the constitutionally mandated prescription of the legislature. The prescription set by the Florida legislature was pursuant to the clear mandate of the language of the Constitution and the Florida court had no power to alter it on a phony pretext.

“In any event, expanding further the already grotesquely expanded power of SCOTUS was then, and still is, a bad idea.”

Absolutely correct!

The Court could (and in my opinion, should) conclude there is presently a remedy to the O eligibility issue clearly set out in the Consitution. It is to be found in the 20th amendment provision regarding Objections to the electoral vote on Jan 8, ‘09. It is not complicated language and demonstrates the founders and ratifiers were thinking ahead and knew what they werre doing. We should be so lucky! There is no Constitutional crisis. Unless the Dems refuse to honor that plain language.

Over the years the Court has taken it upon itself to become the unelected Supreme Legislature. Talk about becoming a nanny state!

STAND UP AMERICA! The presidential election is not over!
We voted for electors, not the individual candidates. The electors vote on or after December 15, 2009. The results are then presented to a joint session of Congress and objections may be heard on January 8, 2009 pursuant to the 20th amendment and Public Law 110-430. See the letter on my About page hand-delivered to the local offices of my Republican Senators and Representatives. I urge you to take similar action, even if it is simply faxing a one page letter to Washington, D.C.