[frmrda]

Great post Liz. It really lays it out logically.

What Torch is going to do is ask the court to use its EQUITABLE powers and put someone else's name on the ballot. The court's equitable powers are usually requested when there is no adequate remedy at law.

It's basically like saying "It's not fair", and asking the court, on its own, to make it fair. Here the argument will be that because the law is written as it is (no new candidates on the ballot 51 days before and election) that the voters have no real choice, and that's not fair.

Given that the NJ Judiciary is largely Democrat, I've got a bad feeling.

[Coop]

But Torricelli didn't resign, he merely withdrew from this year's election. That concentrates the next step in the process into the state Supreme Court.

He's still got 4-5 days in which to resign, if this particular scenario isn't going how the Democrats would like.

[twigs]

From what I've read (and otherwise I don't know), the NJ Supreme Court is Republican due to Christy Whitman's years as governor. If so, then there's a chance that the rule of law will prevail.

[alnick]

Here the argument will be that because the law is written as it is (no new candidates on the ballot 51 days before and election) that the voters have no real choice, and that's not fair.

Sure the voters have a choice. If the dems were honorable, they'd start a write-in campaign ASAP for their candidate of choice rather than to try to break the law.

[Liz]

The Pubbies can begin appeals process to an ever higher court......