[Congressman Billybob]

Quite the contrary, my friend.

It's looking now like Forrester will send Lautenberg back to his rocker on the porch at the Home. The Court should STILL rule on the case. Shutting off nonsense like this in all future elections concerning the House, the Senate, and the President is an important function for the Court.

Look at the fact that the Democrats took two whacks at getting the Hawaii Supreme Court to rewrite the election laws there, in THIS election. Thank God the Hawaii Supreme Court decided to obey the law. How many future judges and courts in future elections will go the way of NJ and Florida, if the Supreme Court does not put a stop to it.

I cannot understand why you do not see that as a valuable result to obtain in the US SC.

Billybob

[RobFromGa]

Shutting off nonsense like this in all future elections concerning the House, the Senate, and the President is an important function for the Court.

Congressman-

What form would the SCOTUS ruling take that would shut off this nonsense in future elections?

I don't get it. The NJSC re-wrote a state law that was clear. What ruling by SCOTUS will stop a similar future State SC from doing the exact same thing?

[steveegg]

I knew I should have been clearer. I didn't mean that SCOTUS shouldn't deliver an opinion derisive of the Jersey Supreme Idiots; indeed, that opinion is a must. I meant that, since the emergency relief requested didn't occur, any relief that may be required (i.e. a reversal of a Lautenberg election win) would now have to come from the Senate ("led" on the Pubbie side by the same idiots that put on a farce of a trial in '99, and didn't even flinch when they seated Ma Carnahan in '01, and led on the RAT side by a group that is, frankly, power-mad).

The best thing that can happen is that Forrester wins on the 5th, the Pubbies retake the Senate, SCOTUS delivers several lead-gauntlet backhands to the Jersey Idiots, and Trent Cave-A-Lott grows a backbone.