NJ Supreme Court Hearing Live Thread

New Jersey Public TV ^ | 10/02/02 | TonyInOhio

[TonyInOhio]

New Jersey Public TV is carrying this hearing live. Click on Watch Live Online, and post what you hear, here.

Tony

[twyn1]

it's a fraud to keep him on the ballot ?? this whole argument is so a**-backwards it's mind-boggling

[Don'tMessWithTexas]

How many of the justices have been indicating sympathy to the Rats?

[blackdog]

Who's Donald Segreti? And to those wanting the fax #, I called the clerk and they will not give it to me. Anyone have any letterhead or correspondence which may have it?

[dyed_in_the_wool]

Republican lawyer is awful. What a stuttering dipsh*t.

[Yankee]

GOP lawyers now up.

Will it matter.

Looks to me like this kangaroo court has already decided to issue their Fatwah, calling for Jihad against the rule-of-law.

[Damocles]

Forrester's lawyer is a frickin idiot! They couldn't anyone better spoken than this guy? Sheesh!!

[Black Agnes]

FAX numbers, Mash HERE!

NJ Elections Homepage

[LisaFab]

These 'justices' are driving me nuts! Can't anyone speak to the actual LAW? What "competing choices?" The fix is indeed in.

[Teacher317]

You mean the impartial judges are interrupting him... did they treat the DNC lawyers that way?

[Alberta's Child]

The only bad thing about Somerset County is that it includes Somerville. I'm sure that place is about 90% Democratic.

[TonyInOhio]

How many of the justices have been indicating sympathy to the Rats?

All of them who have spoken.

[1Old Pro]

Justices say they want to seek a remedy. They are clearly partisan. ONLY HOPE: SCOTUS holds them up.

[KsSunflower]

The democrats have caused this problem...the remedy CANNOT be one that benefits them.

[Howlin]

Richard Nixon's dirty tricks guy.

[gridlock]

If the court wants to fashion the least intrusive and disruptive remedy, it must disallow Torricelli's request to be removed from the ballot. That will mean that everybody has what he had last Sunday, an opportunity to vote for Torricelli, Forrester, or any of the minor candidates.

Just because Torricelli is losing is no reason to change the ballot. When somebody says he's going to do something and works at it for two years, I have no problem holding him to the deal.

[carton253]

Call made... said that Toricelli can't withdraw because the polls are saying he is losing. Polls are meaningless. Toricelli won't know that he has lost for sure until the votes are counted.

Anyway, the Courts shouldn't take a poll to see whether or not they should obey the law.

Is this what we have been reduced to?

[Timesink]

Ouch, the possibility that Torch's seat could be put to an election on 31 days notice (if he resigned his seat) is very bad.

I don't think this is true. The SCOTUS has already dealt with a case like this, and ruled that such an election for a federal seat would have to be held on the next federal election day.

[jackbill]

I don't have much faith in the Republican lawyer. He's missing all of the opportunities.

[Numbers Guy]

I think the easiest polemical argument to make is the one that Fred Barnes made in the Weekly Standard today: Does this mean that the GOP can replace Bill Simon with Arnold or Tim Hutchinson with Asa? The court will say "that's other states", but the principle stands out very clearly.

The GOP will lose on this and I doubt the Federal courts will pick up on the issue, since it's really a state law issue.

But all that means is that the GOP will win if it wins the election, and this likely hijacking by the Dems and the NJSC is an excellent issue for the GOP to exploit between now and election day.

Put it another way: If you're the coach of a football team and you get jobbed on a critical call in the third quarter, do you spend the rest of the game whining about the call, or do you turn the adversity into something to motivate your guys for the rest of the game? We have a good idea that the NJSC will rule against the GOP, so the GOP should focus on using the resultant frustration to ensure victory in the election.

[Yankee]

Republican lawyer is awful. What a stuttering dipsh*t.

Who did they get? The stuttering putz from "My Cousin Vinny"?