NJ Supreme Court Hearing Live Thread

New Jersey Public TV ^ | 10/02/02 | TonyInOhio

[TonyInOhio]

New Jersey Public TV is carrying this hearing live. Click on Watch Live Online, and post what you hear, here.

Tony

[Iowamerican]

What if a serviceman is killed in action after he has already voted? He can't vote again. I guess he would forevermore vote for democrats.

[Tuxedo]

Has the RNC lawyer spoken yet?

[Mo1]

Or, they should be forced to put up the no-name candidate who finished second in New Jersey's primary.

That is a good point!!

[1Old Pro]

Justice says "I don't understand the language", asks DEM RAT to explainit to him. SHEESH.

[hobbes1]

He just said they made the decision partly on the not wanting to extend the term to seven years. They Can't.

[XJarhead]

One key point will be to see how the justices respond to the write-in option that the Republican lawyer is sure to mention. It's really our best argument that the voters' choice is protected even if the ballot is not changed.

[Teacher317]

Remember that two of them donated to Torch's campaign, and one to Lautenberg's.

[1L]

DNC lawyer is getting HAMMERED ...

It's his answers, not the questions, that determine the effectiveness. gore's original SC lawyer, Tribe, did an absolutely horrid job at the first SC orals, but not because any of the questions were too tough. All of them, for the most part, I expected.

[Petronski]

We have a winner:

Blackdog said: Just before the judges issue a ruling, the RNC should file a motion to change lawyers and start the proceedings all over because the previous RNC lawyer thinks he cannot win the case as heard.

LOL!

[Mo1]

Hmmmm .... Wouldn't this mean that if Torch is successfully thrown off the ballot, we just need to find one RAT primary voter to sue for disenfranchisement?

SOUNDS LIKE IT TO ME

[twyn1]

and evidentally, neither of them feels ANY need to recuse himself

[VRWC_minion]

The current question of ths statute that provides for filling a vacancy within 30 days implies another statute would allow an election within 30 days. Therefore NJ has one statute requiring an election within 30 days and another statute that limits it to 51 days. It implies that 30 days is previously recognized as adequate time to conduct an election.

[Coop]

Just before the judges issue a ruling, the RNC should file a motion to change lawyers and start the proceedings all over because the previous RNC lawyer thinks he cannot win the case as heard.

ROTFLMAO!!

[finnman69]

Justice stumped the RAT. "do you think the statute says that if there is a vacancy , the replacement serves till the next election. Is the next election Nov 5th this year?"

[Kaisersrsic]

Ouch, the possibility that Torch's seat could be put to an election on 31 days notice (if he resigned his seat) is very bad.

[Stultis]

btw, going back to something earlier, the rats' claim that the justices can't consider the motive/circumstances causing a vacancy is tied to statutory language referring to vacancies BEFORE the 51 day limit. IOW the rats want the court to interpret that language strictly, but apply it broadly, and interpret the 51 limit broadly, and apply it hardly at all.

Shocking that even a lawyer could stand before a judge and make such a blatantly hypocritical argument.

[gortklattu]

If they vote twice, count the votes twice

[hobbes1]

Stumped him again. They can elect a rat, and someone else can serve. They are killing him.

[finnman69]

Justice just said in MO Carnahan was dead and still on the ballot and won, what was the result afert that? LOL

[VRWC_minion]

New York law says failure to meet deadline is fatal; New Jersey statute does not. What does that mean.

It means that if NJ really meant the deadline to be 51 days they would have said that failure to meet that deadline was "fatal" and therefore by implication the 51 deadline is really a guideline.