Replies

Forget an appeal.

By changing the law, the SCONJ created bad precedent.

THE SOLUTION: Every political party other than the Dems, including the Libertarians, Conservatives, Republicans and Greens, should demand that any of their candidates that happen to be trailing in the polls be replaced in the ballots by some other candidate.

Perhaps individual citizens can make such pleas as well.

Start out at the circuit court level (or NJ equivalent) with a TRO (Temporary Restraining Order) to halt the printing of new ballots until all desired ballot changes have been incorporated into the ballots. The likelihood of a TRO being granted may be very high depending on the language of the SCONJ opinion.

One TRO every two days should bog the system down quite nicely.

As the legal basis for all TROs would be the SCONJ's own opinion, the SCONJ would have to overturn or substantially modify its own opinion in order to get any ballot out by the constitutionally mandated time.

THE TIME TO TIE UP THE NEW BALLOT REPLACING SCHEME OF THE SCONJ IS NOW!!!! The SCONJ might learn that there is a reason for deadlines passed by legislatures, AND THAT THE COURTS AREN'T SUPERLEGISLATURES.

As I doubt that the SCONJ called the local election boards on this issue, mere feasability may not be an issue, i.e., the TRO cannot be denied by virtue of such a trivial thing as feasibility. In the end, the SCONJ would have to declare an arbitrary cutoff date. This would cause the SCONJ great embarassment.

SO, DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THERE'S A WRITTEN OPINION TO BE FOUND ON THE WEB?

BINGO, Smedley. THAT is a GREAT plan!

I wouldn't be surprised if some sacrificial Republican in an overwhelming Demo district does this. It make for great street theater. And show the absurdity and the duplicity of the DemocRAT party which will assuredly oppose such a move by a Republian.

LOL! Its a partisan decision created by a kangaroo court to help the losing side in a political contest. The fact its issued by the state's highest tribunal doesn't make it any less partisan and more to the point - its not really a precedent at all. Its a one-time rule created by and for Democrats. If Republicans came along with a similar argument for a losing candidate they wanted to replace, they'd be taken to the woodshed. But when it comes to breaking the law, rest assured the Democrats will get special treatment from friendly corrupt justices. Well today in New Jersey we found out the state's politics really does live up to its notorious reputation. Tony Soprano would have heartily approved of the way the Rats agony was "fixed" for them today.

THE SOLUTION: Every political party other than the Dems, including the Libertarians, Conservatives, Republicans and Greens, should demand that any of their candidates that happen to be trailing in the polls be replaced in the ballots by some other candidate.

You are so WRONG!

Even if the Democrats win every election from now on - we should never, ever be guilty ourselves of subverting the rule of law. It is they who will burn in hell for this. We are better than that - we know how fundamentally important the rule of law is to a civilized and free society and to individual liberty than to be dragged down into their criminal activities. And in all of this never forget the true purpose of the Second Amendment. If they keep this up for too long, and it comes to a certain point, free men will have no other recourse.