MSNBC- Recall election to be delayed

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[Ragirl]

California Appeals Court - Recall should be blocked!!!

[NorseWood]

BJ High School?

[Congressman Billybob]

The Ninth Circuit is a wild-hair Court generally, not just on this particular three-judge panel. If it were my choice, I'd take it straight to the Supremes and not bother with asking all the 36 (is it?) judges of the Ninth Circuit to confer by telephone. There is no requirement that parties to the case go to the whole Circuit (en banc) before asking the SCOTUS for Emergency Relief.

John / Billybob

[Peach]

LOL.....

[goodnesswins]

This SMELLS like a Clinton.

[prairiebreeze]

Yes, you are right. This point was brought up on FOX. It's the electorate and the nation who are losing if this goes ruling goes forward.

Prairie

[Republican Red]

I even got a booklet mailed to me a week before the 2002 elections in Georgia entitled "Voting Instructions". It was about eight pages long and showed pictures and a lengthy write-up (in English and Spanish for the illegals) about how one takes a "stylet" and punches a hole through the ballot.

I did manage to get through the process successfully!

[Peach]

I nominate you for best tagline. Brilliant, simply brilliant.

[Miss Marple]

Well, Clinton can have a school named after him. It isn't exactly an aircraft carrier, is it?

Myself, I think that we should file a lawsuit against naming the school. Makes as much sense as any of this.

[going hot]

Rose Bird was recalled while a sitting Calif supreme court judge. Is there any provision for recalling a circuit court judge??

[Dan from Michigan]

I didn't either. Doesn't suprise me since Reinhardt is the worst of all of them.

[Congressman Billybob]

Yes, they CAN stop an election. But the Supreme Court CAN stop, and frequently HAS stopped, the Ninth Circuit.

John / Billybob

[Republicus2001]

Is there yet a recall of Lt. Gov. Bustamonte at this time (or are you projecting one)?

Didn't Bustamonte swear an oath to uphold our government and not TO SUPPORT THE VIOLENT OVERTHROW OF CALIFORNIA?

[Peach]

This is what we're going to get from these judges - see clip next paragraph from an AP article posted on FR - and we can imagine how these liberal judges will vote on this!

"A steel beam in the symmetrical shape of a cross — a remnant from the World Trade Center wreckage — has drawn criticism from an atheist group, which objects to the artifact being kept at ground zero as a religious emblem."

[prairiebreeze]

Bump to check for an answer....paging Congressman Billybob

Prairie

[Keith]

mwll, I know that...I teach US constitution (am administera US Gov't test as I write), I was referring to jurisidiction as far as the fact that this is a STATE election. I think they are using VRA (Voting Rights Act) and FEC rules to jawbone a reason to get involved. Agree with Billybob that SCOTUS is likely to slap them down. again.

[shellylet]

[steveegg]

However, I think odds favor the Supreme Court not wading into the morass at all. From their perspective, this is the sort of one-time circumstance which doesn't require the establishment of enduring precedent. Yeah, we might think it's imperative that the recall take place in October rather than March, but in the grand scheme of things, it's a rather trivial distinction in the nation's history.

It might be if the time frame that should have precluded the March date were not enshrined in the California constitution, and if the first court that decided in this manner were a state court instead of a federal one.

In short, I think the SCOTUS will not see fit to intervene over such an incidental point of law, when the underlying principles [voting machinery and equal standards] are still in a state of flux. I could very well be proven wrong...

For the sake of California, I certainly hope so.

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

Nobody can be perfect in predicting what an activist court might rule.

Especially with the Clinton's involved.

[Cinnamon Girl]

In COMPTON, which has their own school system, and it sucks.

[oceanview]

and we shouldn't give them what they want. leave Davis in place, and use this as a political issue.