BREAKING: SCOTUS Sides With Brunner

Fox News ^ | 10/17/08 | Fox News

[careyb]

Just breaking now. Waiting on link.

[Arkinsaw]

If elected, Obama will now positively be viewed as an illegitimate President

That doesn't matter at all does it. The Democrats harped that line for years and it had zero impact.

Republicans are about to be in the wilderness. Mostly because of their own failure.

The only strategy left is to let the Republican Party purge itself. Many will quit the party or retire because it has no power. We will see some RINO's change party affiliation to join the bandwagon. People who love Reagan will need to forget national politics for that period and concentrate on making sure that the slow re-establishment of the party is done by pro-Reagan people and that the party is changed to keep these LOSERS away from the party control levers when they come slinking back in a few years.

The focus will need to be on getting local officials elected and people who are in control of the voting process. It will need to focus on state legislatures who write the laws to monitor elections.

Republicans who are left will need to just let the Democrats run wild and let the American people know that what happens happens because Republicans have no power to stop it. Democrats generally go hog-freaking wild when they win. They ALWAYS, ALWAYS, overreach and get wildly arrogant and cocky....let them....don't oppose them. Encourage them to protest, freak out, reach for the communist high bar, pass crazy laws, and spend like crazy.

We are going to have hard times. We will be in much the same shape as British Tories after Thatcher in the era of Blair. We will have to rebuild from the ground up and make sure that the blame for the excess falls where it is deserved.

Conservatives will have an opportunity because what we will go through will not be fun, and RINO types will not be that interested in trudging through the wilderness.

[austinaero]

We have to make sure this Brunner chic becomes the POSTER CHILD for ACORN corruption in Ohio! She is in an elected position and she is as crooked as they get!

[Quix]

HEY! I AGREE WITH YOU!

HAVE ALWAYS AGREED WITH THAT PERSPECTIVE.

Now with Sarah Palin with McWhat’sHisFace . . .

all the more so.

I firmly believe God has put Palin in for HIS PURPOSES.

McSideKick will discover soon enough that Sarah has a much bigger PROTECTOR and sponsor than McSideKick.

[RetSignman]

THAT is an excellent point, she has an extension BUT SHE HAS TO DO IT.

Thanks for that positive post.

[montag813]

CLICK HERE for the PDF of the SCOTUS decision.

Summary:
On October 9, 2008, the United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio entered a temporary re-straining order (TRO) directing Jennifer Brunner, theOhio Secretary of State, to update Ohio’s Statewide VoterRegistration Database (SWVRD) to comply with Section303 of the Help America Vote Act of 2002 (HAVA), 116 Stat. 1708, 42 U. S. C. §15483(a)(5)(B)(i).* The United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit denied the Secretary’s motion to vacate the TRO. The Secretary has filed an application to stay the TRO with JUSTICE STEVENS as Circuit Justice for the Sixth Circuit, and he has referred the matter to the Court. The Secretary ar-gues both that the District Court had no jurisdiction to enter the TRO and that its ruling on the merits was erro-neous. We express no opinion on the question whether HAVA is being properly implemented. Respondents,however, are not sufficiently likely to prevail on the question whether Congress has authorized the District Courtto enforce Section 303 in an action brought by a private litigant to justify the issuance of a TRO. See Gonzaga Univ. v. Doe, 536 U. S. 273, 283 (2002); Alexander v. Sandoval, 532 U. S. 275, 286 (2001). We therefore grantthe application for a stay and vacate the TRO. It is so ordered.

[austinaero]

“I am headed out tomorrow to buy my first handgun. Finally.”

Buy two. They may not be available after a couple of weeks.
Heck, buy 10!

[diamond6]

That sounds like the SCOTUS is saying there’s no standing to file suit. If that’s the case, that is outrageous!

There is no way anything can be done AFTER the election, because the problem will be wiped away once the absentee ballots are open in just a few days.

[Arkinsaw]

have obviously given the justices their marching orders.

Nah, they have just agreed that they are not going to touch it with a ten-foot pole no matter which side appears before them. They did not like the complaints after Bush v. Gore and feel that it "harmed the court" so they will avoid anything that even smells like Bush v. Gore.

Brave sir Robin turned and fled.

[stylin19a]

here’s the Per Curiam

http://www.scotusblog.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/ohio-order-10-17-08.pdf

[austinaero]

“Then that’s what they need to do, and they need to keep doing it until the taxpayers get sick and tired of having to pay for cleaning up ACORN’s mess every election.”

Hmm,,, you may have hit on something there. US taxpayers apparently fund ACORN somehow (thanks to Congress)...then US taxpayers will be paying for the messes ACORN makes and all the litigation around them. Wonder if we can make it a money issue?

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

They are saying there is no standing by a PRIVATE litigant.

This is a federal law. If a private person cannot sue to enforce it, then responsibility rests with the U.S. Department of Justice.

[Quix]

Hmmm

[pieces of time]

Perhaps instead of a tea party it should be a vote party - we can dump our ballots in the tidal basin. It’s no different from what will happen on Election Day based on this SCOTUS decision.

[diamond6]

I hope you’re right.

Let’s get them in there NOW!!!

[diamond6]

Actually, that doesn’t appear to be what they’re saying.

I think this may be going back to the Circuit Court.

If GOP doesn’t have standing, we better find someone who does - and quick.

[diamond6]

Actually, that doesn’t appear to be what they’re saying.

I think this may be going back to the Circuit Court.

If GOP doesn’t have standing, we better find someone who does - and quick.

[diamond6]

Actually, that doesn’t appear to be what they’re saying.

I think this may be going back to the Circuit Court.

If GOP doesn’t have standing, we better find someone who does - and quick.

[KarlInOhio]

It's my understanding that Ohio can register & VOTE at the same time!!

There was a small overlap from when early voting started until the 30 day registration requirement started on October 6. Some argued that you had to be registered for 30 days before you voted, but SoS Brunner (I think) ruled that the 30 days was before the election day, not before the vote was cast. I don't know the exact wording of the law so I don't know if it was valid or if she just pulled it out of her backside. Either way the law should be changed to either start early voting after the 30 day registration limit or require a 30 day limit between registering and voting.

Much as current history students learn that the Dred Scott decision was when the slide to the Civil War nearly inevitable, so too might future students learn that the Brunner was when the Republic died (or they'll learn it as the date the Glorious Obamunist Revolution started).

[RetSignman]

Thanks
Thanks
and
Thanks. :)

[Jimmy Valentine's brother]

So one man on vote does not apply. No civil rights issue. Nothing to see here, move on.