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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: jlallen who wrote (110254)12/11/2000 10:49:38 AM
From: Jumper  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
Re: Banana Republican Far Right Wing Court - don't just take my word for it - here is an excerpt from the LA Times.

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Under Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, the five-member majority on this court has been defined by its defense of states' rights against federal intrusions. It struck down a federal law banning guns near schools as an unacceptable infringement on state prerogatives. On similar grounds, it struck down a federal law allowing rape victims and battered spouses to sue their assailants in federal court. It said Washington could not compel local sheriffs to conduct background checks on handgun purchasers. And it has said states cannot be sued in either state or federal court for violating federal laws. As one court scholar has written: "The five justices . . . harken back to pre-Civil War Jeffersonian notions exalting state sovereignty."

Yet on Saturday, those same five conservative justices, all appointed by Republican presidents, outvoted the four most moderate and liberal justices (two appointed by Republicans, two by Democrats) to block a decision by Florida's highest court interpreting state law on a matter--the administration of elections--historically left to the states.

Most striking in the U.S. Supreme Court's stunning ruling was its decision to stop the hand counts that had resumed Saturday morning--and its openly political logic for doing so.
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