Wrong.
You just can't be as stupid as you want us to believe you are. As the Chicago Tribune reported:
"On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court made it clear that somebody is watching the Florida courts and their evident disdain for the rule of law.
So much for "the will of the people," a phrase which, as manhandled by Gore, turned out to mean whatever technicalities Gore's lawyers could seize on, or ignore, subject only to approving pats on the head administered by sympathetic judges in Florida. Up here in Washington, the federal court was saying, questions get decided on the cold, hard basis of law.
The same ruling included a subtle but equally unmistakable message to the Florida Legislature. Its members have been the butt of derision for adopting the supposedly preposterous stance that if the election can't produce 25 electors to represent Florida, the legislators should do the job themselves.
Democrats have argued that if this occurs, it would amount to "politicians" hijacking the election from voters. Nonsense. As the highest court in the land took pains to quote from this nation's Constitution, it is the job of state legislators to oversee the selection of electors who cast votes in the Electoral College. The U.S. Supreme Court gave the Florida Legislature a tacit nod: You have plenty of authority to do what you may need to do. The high court's reference to the Constitution should remind Gore's partisans that legislators aren't just politicians. They are elected representatives of the people and should be trusted as such."
If you had any understanding of the Constitution you would know that the Founders were more concerned with judicial tyranny - an unrepresentative body - than with any tyranny from the other branches.
The Constitution provided checks on the Legislature and Executive. But they gave the Judiciary little precribed power - their power is derived from institutional prestige. Something that the FL Supreme Court now has none of. |
