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I absolutely agree with you. There is a bigger picture than just this election. The problem with the SCOTUS not taking the case is, that we no longer have the threat of recourse. For this state, NJ, it appears that we may have been better off not even making the appeal. At least before, we had the perception of the moral high ground.

That has been lost in this case and in the future, any state with an activist court is now fair game for all kinds of election and voting statute mayhem.

Very well said! The NJSC did write election law. Also look at two consequences of the non-action by the SCOTUS. First the slap at the New Jersey Dems for discounting their primary vote for Torricelli. Second Forrester was totally shafted because however he had run his campaign up to that point he had a 10-12 point. His reward for that good campaign is that his opponent is pulled and replaced with a ringer. His entire campaign has to be retooled for a different candidate for the last month of the campaign while the ringer is known by all the voters; therefore, faces less of a hardship.

These reasons tell me the SCOTUS should have intervened. Unless something else will occur in the future to accomplish a reversal that I cannot realize at the present time.

KS,

I don't know if I fully disagree with the court refusing to hear the case, after all this is something that should be decided by the states. However, the legislature of NJ should absolutely be livid, and should be recalling these lunatics... and push the issue, their legitimacy as a body is gone, not because the activists on the NJSC, but because they don't call them on it.

Of course this is NJ we are talking about.. I used to joke that Rhode Island was a state because the Mob needed a state to call their own. It is now obvious the Mob poluation is now too big for RI and they have relocated to NJ.

I see nothing but electorial chaos at all times now, nearly every election will wind up in front of judges, and that is dispicable. Nixon was a greater man that Gore! He could have challenged the 1960 presidential election on the corruption in Chicago, and would have won, but did not because he knew the pandora's box it would open. THe dems didn't care in 2000 when they played their games, and now have created a morass that will drag this nation down a terrible road for years to come.