I apologize for believing that just one more Justice would join "the faithful three," Rehnquist, Scalia and Thomas, to make the Supreme Court take this case. As you know, it takes only four Justices to cause the Court to take a case.
I did not believe that the Supreme Court could be this dumb, this incompetent, this ignorant of the meaning of their oaths of office.
I apologize for my belief that the Supreme Court would defend the Constitution in this case, as it did in the Florida case.
Billybob
First, we had a corrupt, abusive decision by the NJSC. Second, we had a mistaken decision by the USSC. My guess is that we had just three votes - Scalia, Rehnquist, and Thomas.
The USSC has the luxury of believing that all is well -- the system still works. If we lived in their cocoon, we might feel the same. They do not and cannot appreciate -- with the obvious exception of Clarence Thomas -- the ends to which these evil people on the left will go to advance their cause and retain power illegally.
This was a dark day. There is no escaping that, and no rationalizations that "it is now up to the voters of New Jersey" can wipe away the fact that the rule of law took a big hit.
I am a lot more worried about the integrity of the law than I am about one Senate seat.
It seems there is a LOT of that going around these days! Witness the votes of 240 members of the United States House of Represenatives, 60 members of the United States Senate, and the pen of the President on a CLEARLY unconstitutional campaign finance reform measure!