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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: Timothy W. Johnson who wrote (97447)12/1/2000 4:37:31 PM
From: WTSherman  Read Replies (3) of 769670
 
<Last I checked, the Fla SC was supposed to interpret the law, not rewrite it. <

I've seen this comment posted about 5,000 times on this thread. Since so many people seem to believe it, I'd like some explanation...

Fla. law had one statute that called for returns to be submitted to the SoS by one week after the election(what you are referring to above, correct?), Fla. law also had another election statute that said that contestants were entitled to manual recounts if the election boards in each district found that the such a recount could affect the outcome of the election. That same statute also said that such recounts could be requested up to 6 days after the election. Since the first statute limitation's could and would affect the ability of someone to exercise their rights under the second statute there was a basic conflict between the two.

Resolving such conflicts between statutes is what court's do all the time. This is interpreting the law, no?

Please explain how the FSC "rewrote" law...
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