[sam_paine]

EVERYBODY WINS!! This is a victory for State's Rights, you know. As pathetic as NJ is, they ought to be able to decide their own mess in their own state. You can impeach the NJSC, or you can vote non-Whitman's in to appoint non-liberals. Welcome to the creaky wheels of democracy.

[HamiltonJay]

Sorry, this is no victory for states rights, this is a failure of respect for the rule of law. Judges may not legistlate, that is not their rule.

What this reinforces is that our Representative Republic is over, and the rule of law means nothing, which means we are now a Democracy and Mob Rule is the law of the day, which means we as a nation are not long for this earth.

Democracies, true democracies are inherently failed constructs, we are a nation of laws, or will are a failed nation, there is no middle ground.

[concerned about politics]

EVERYBODY WINS!! This is a victory for State's Rights, you know.

So now it's legal for Conservative states to play this game, too. Now "everybody will be doing it."
States that are boarderline can have Conservative courts to swing for them, without repercussion. Just point to "The NJ ethics."

[billbears]

EVERYBODY WINS!! This is a victory for State's Rights, you know.

Thank you. This issue was not one for the SCOTUS. As much as I dislike the fact that Lautenburg may win in NJ, what the NJ SC decided was the final decision. Are we to expect the national government to step into every internal state issue because we disagree with the decision? That being said, I sure hope Forrester wins

[NittanyLion]

EVERYBODY WINS!! This is a victory for State's Rights, you know. As pathetic as NJ is, they ought to be able to decide their own mess in their own state. You can impeach the NJSC, or you can vote non-Whitman's in to appoint non-liberals. Welcome to the creaky wheels of democracy.

Yep. Once the NJ Supreme Court made their decision, that's it. I think the NJSC blew it, but SCOTUS is in no position to overturn.

[RAT Patrol]

I am all for state rights unless they violate the US Constitution. This gives the 'rat party near ownership of that state. It's WRONG!

[stndngathwrthistry]

Somebody may have already pointed this out, as I haven't been through the whole thread, but:

"The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators." --US Constitution, Article I, Sec. 4

[Redbob]

'Splain it to me again how this is a "victory for states' rights" when the NJ Supreme Court gets to make law out of whole cloth.
I thought that, somewhere along there, states' rights involved their adhering to the law. Or is "states' rights" only allowed when the rule of law is flouted and courts make law as they see fit?
Like the federal judges have been doing since the time of Orville Faubus.