The Supreme Court did a flip-flop when they ruled for Bush given the way they have ruled
in past years on the issues mentioned below.
Because of their past rulings, I believe the Supreme Court should have stayed out of
the 2000 election. They named Bushy Jr. as President. Of course, maybe those
who voted for Busy Jr. felt that they should do so since Bush Sr. nominated a few if not
all of them tothe Court--Mephisto
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"In recent years, the Supreme Court has carried out what some observers call
a states' rights revolution, tilting the federal-state balance toward the states
in a series of 5-4 votes, with Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist leading the majority.
Invoking states' rights, the justices struck down a law that made it a federal crime
to possess a gun near a school, ruled that rape victims cannot sue their attackers
in federal court and shielded state governments from federal age-bias lawsuits filed
by their employees.
However, the justices went against that trend in the presidential election
case last month when they canceled the hand-recount of votes ordered by
the Florida Supreme Court.
The justices' 5-4 ruling, which in effect gave the presidency to Bush,
was determined by the same five justices who ordinarily support states' rights".
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"In Florida, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on Thursday opened its two-day
hearing investigating voting irregularities. The NAACP and other civil rights groups
filed a class action lawsuit Wednesday in federal court on behalf of black Florida
residents who say they were denied the right to vote in the Nov. 7 election.
``Many black voters in this state are saying we can't trust Florida to protect
our rights to vote,'' she said, noting Bush supports states' rights.
``The irony of that, of course, is that Bush so quickly ran to the Supreme Court
to say Florida couldn't manage its election.''
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