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The Supremes reached down and grabbed the 2000 election recount fiasco thank goodness so perhaps they will see the necessity on this issue.


7 posted on 02/03/2011 7:33:37 AM PST by tirednvirginia
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To: tirednvirginia

It is a Constitutional issue with a lower court ruling. No reason not to grab it.


10 posted on 02/03/2011 7:35:05 AM PST by writer33 (Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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To: tirednvirginia

I know they do not want to do it. If the Obamunnists can not get a stay or appeal the ruling stands.


13 posted on 02/03/2011 7:37:43 AM PST by screaminsunshine (Surfers Rule)
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To: tirednvirginia
The Supremes reached down and grabbed the 2000 election recount fiasco thank goodness so perhaps they will see the necessity on this issue.

The fastest that I remember the Supreme Court reacting was to a federal law prohibiting burning of the flag. The law was passed shortly after the Court ruled against a STATE law prohibiting desecration of the flag.

I think someone burned a flag on the Capitol steps within a few days, so he would be arrested. It went from the district court to the Supreme Court in record time, apparently because the law in question said it had to do so, and that the Court must grant certiorari, and was required to hear it on an expedited basis.

US v. Eichman

28 posted on 02/03/2011 7:53:29 AM PST by justlurking (The only remedy for a bad guy with a gun is a good WOMAN (Sgt. Kimberly Munley) with a gun)
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To: tirednvirginia
"The Supremes reached down and grabbed the 2000 election recount fiasco thank goodness so perhaps they will see the necessity on this issue."

A common misconception, but that is not what happened. Bush v. Gore was filed in FL state court, with a final decision eventually coming from the Supreme Court of the State of Fl. The US Supreme Court is the first appellate court for cases of final judgment from the respective state Supreme Courts. IOW, when a state case is resolved by the state Supreme Court, the next level of appeal is not the federal Circuit Court, it's the Supreme Court.

Remember, there was another case filed by Bush in District Court, Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, that did move through the "normal" (but expedited) appellate process, eventually heard and decided by the Supremes.

91 posted on 02/03/2011 10:02:41 AM PST by OldDeckHand
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