[Congressman Billybob]

Just sorting things out for the benefit of FReepers. Y'all deserve to be ahead of the curve.

[Stultis]

Excellent! I only heard headlines and brief radio reports to the effect that the Supremes had passed on the NJ case altogether. This never made any sense to me (sure they would act quickly re emergency relief, but why act just as quickly on cert per se) and I suspected the lamestream media might have this bulloxed. Thank for providing the details!

[shhrubbery!]

I received a NJ absentee ballot yesterday, October 10. It has Lausenberg's name on the Democrat line.

Awfully quick work, that. The SCOTUS decision was only last Friday, October 4. That means new ballots with Lausenberg's name were printed up, delivered to election boards, and mailed within 4 or 5 days. And that period includes a weekend. Hmmmmmmmmm.

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

Just sorting things out for the benefit of FReepers. Y'all deserve to be ahead of the curve.

What would be the point of taking the case AFTER the election? Or even slightly before? Wouldn't it end like Bush v. Gore 2000, with a majority decision that there was not enough time to "fashion a remedy"?

PS: And what about this judicial penchant for "fashioning a remedy as opposed to "interpreting the law" For how long have we been sliding down this slippery slope?

[connectthedots]

Somewhere between Justice Souter's office and the Clerk's Office they LOST TRACK of the Petition for Cert.

Do you think Rehnquist might be so mad this happened that at least one person within the Supreme Court is now looking for a new job?

[LaGrone]

Thanks for sharing your expertise in these Judicial matters.

[Cold Heat]

Thanks Billybob. Great information as usual.

[Lancey Howard]

Thank you for your fine investigative work and for the clarification you have posted for the benefit of us FReepers.

As you implied, it is too late for this SCOTUS to show that it has the guts to reign in a mobbed up and thoroughly corrupt state Supreme Court. The US Supreme Court made a purely political decision by refusing to grant emergency relief. This US Supreme Court simply did not have the fortitude and the integrity to rule against the scumbag Democrats two times in a row. They did not want a repeat of the catcalls and the irrational indignation that followed the Florida decision. So they took the easy way out and let the scumbags have one. How utterly disappointing. How utterly weak. And I am talking here about what? - - one or two justices? We already know who constitutes the scumbag contingent of the court - - so it had to be one or two of the others.

[exit82]

You called it --to a "T". Glad you are on our side.

[nicmarlo]

Thanks for your post, comgressman. I thought the whole affair was dead to the USSC, at least, that's how it's been protrayed in the media.

[BJungNan]

This case is for the legislature to work on, not the courts. The court ruled, now the legislature needs to make its intentions so clear the court can not interpret it any other way but the way they intended.

[Robert A Cook PE]

And we appreciate the update.