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To: Gay State Conservative

They can’t .. right now they’re only 8 .. not 9.

Which means .. it will have to wait until Donald appoints a new Justice.

Leave it to my idiot Gov to sign such a law .. depriving a man of his livelihood. James O’Keefe should not be deprived of telling the world what really goes on in the abortion industry. Especially when Planned Parenthood is just more lies and lies and lies .. like all the rest of the liberals who support Abortion.


7 posted on 10/01/2016 2:41:35 PM PDT by CyberAnt (Peace through Strength)
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To: CyberAnt
They can’t .. right now they’re only 8 .. not 9.

IIRC when a case reaches SCOTUS and only an even number of judges vote on it (a vacancy on the court and a justice recuses him/herself being two possible reasons) a tie vote leaves in place the ruling of the highest court (a Circuit Court,for example) that ruled on it.So if the 9th Circuit rules against the person challenging the law and SCOTUS votes 4-4 then the challenger loses and that law becomes "Constitutional".

Of course if I'm wrong a lawyer will surely correct me here.

13 posted on 10/01/2016 2:57:44 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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