[hobbes1]

Or. Lousenberg Could win, and the Pubbies gain control, And refuse to seat him, claiming he should not have been on the Ballot, and seat Forrester, due to his outgaining Torriscummy, and assorted third party nuts.

Then Te court could step in, after it was decided that way, and rule against SCONJ. ending all argument, but without taking part in the Political Shenanigans.

[FreeTally]

Or. Lousenberg Could win, and the Pubbies gain control, And refuse to seat him, claiming he should not have been on the Ballot, and seat Forrester, due to his outgaining Torriscummy, and assorted third party nuts.

Now THAT would be hilarious. But do see the Pubbies having a spine like that?

[Dave S]

Or. Lousenberg Could win, and the Pubbies gain control, And refuse to seat him, claiming he should not have been on the Ballot, and seat Forrester, due to his outgaining Torriscummy, and assorted third party nuts

And then the Democrats would do a continuous filabuster and no work would get done in the Senate. To vote requires 60 votes in the affirmative and there is no way the Republicans are going to raise thier total from 49 to 60 this election. Matter of fact there has never been a point in my lifetime that the Republicans have had 60 senators.

[anymouse]

You may well have hit the nail on the head. SCOTUS is waiting for the NJ voters or the (new Republican majority) Senate to take out the garbage, then they will put their seal of approval on it, safely after the political heat dies down.

Constitutionally this approach is more sound then SCOTUS taking a more activist approach of getting in the middle of this (by Demo-rat design) election fiasco (like they had to in the 2000 Presidential election.) As much as we know the Demo-rats and NJSC are flagrently violating NJ election law, SCOTUS knows the slippery slop hazard of them encroaching too often and deeply into the workings of the Legistlative branch. And of course the Rats and NJSC were counting on this, when they dared pull this stunt.