You know, you can take this attitude, but the fact is the court upheld the constitution (as bad as this particular outcome was for us) in that this is a STATE decision. This is what you get when you have a RAT-run state, with a RAT governor, and RINO judges. There was no Constitutional issue here: they had 14 military ballots sent out; only three had come in, and I think you'll agree that that is hardly an "insurmoutable barrier."
The lesson here is not even that you can cheat and win. The lesson is that if you don't elect CONSERVATIVES, don't expect favorable outcomes when the chips are down. While I doubt there are very many, at least there are probably a few NJ Republicans who now regret the way they treated Schundler and probably wish they had worked harder for his election.
Moreover, if Forrester loses, it will be because he did what we have ALWAYS accused the Dems of doing, running a totally negative "I'm-not-Toricelli" race. Yes, he should have done that. But you can't play defense. You must give people a reason to vote FOR you, and we'll see if he can do that now.
It is NOT a states' rights issue, as the Jersey Supreme Idiots were specifically shut out by both the Constitution and those authorities recognized by the Constitution as having this role in Senate elections. The Constitution specifically mentions the state
legislature and Congress has having authority to set the rules. As neither the NJ legislature nor Congress gave a role to the NJ Supreme Idiots regarding ballot vacancies prior to their vacation of said rules, it fell on SCOTUS to restore what had been.
The fact that they failed to do so does not make it a "right" decision.