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To: NittanyLion
If SCOTUS were to overturn NJ's ruling they would need to employ judicial activism to reverse...judicial activism.

No, they wouldn't. As the NJ Legislature was operating under a Constitutional mandate when it wrote its election laws regarding the Senate, the fact that the Jersey Supreme Idiots set aside those laws without relying on any guidance from the Legislature means that they violated the Constitution.

This is (or at least should have been) fundamentally different than if the same had been tried in the governor's race. In that case, the Constitution is silent with regard to who makes the rules.

266 posted on 10/07/2002 11:54:09 AM PDT by steveegg
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To: steveegg
Has anyone in the Legislature spoken out about this issue? Or can I safely assume NJ Legislature is a Dem controled body? And thus will remain silent?
375 posted on 10/07/2002 12:58:52 PM PDT by justshe
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