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To: randog
The Nevada Constitution gives the legislature the authority to reduce the number of supreme court justices to two. They should do that immediately.

Then, come election time, the voters should boot the remaining two out of office.

56 posted on 07/17/2003 1:11:29 PM PDT by snopercod
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To: snopercod
I like it. ;^)
58 posted on 07/17/2003 1:18:08 PM PDT by randog (Everything works great 'til the current flows.)
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To: snopercod; Sabertooth
I just took a look at the Nevada court decision. I take it nobody asked them to issue the injunction they issued. The governor was asking them to issue an injunction ordering the legislature to pass the legislation required within a time limit. Nobody asked the court to remove the constitutional two-thirds requirement.

The court ruled that the "substantive" right to education trumped the "procedural" two-thirds requirement of the Constitution. Under that sort of reasoning, the whole U.S. Constitution could be gutted by the claim that its "procedural" requirements gutted some "substantive" right or other.

59 posted on 07/17/2003 1:21:31 PM PDT by aristeides
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