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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective
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To: jlallen who wrote (9819)7/30/2001 7:44:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll  Read Replies (1) of 10042
 
When decisions are sound, my friend, courts usually don't feel the need to add "this decision can apply to this case only due to the circumstances" as they did there.

The USSC majority had a little moment of judicial amnesia concerning all their previous judgements and positions on the Equal Protection Clause, states' rights, judicial activism, respecting lower courts, and respecting the intentions of the Framers of the Constitution.

Even those who defend the decision do so on purely pragmatic grounds because they liked the result. I have seen no one defend it as Constitutional Law.

If you truly believe that they would have judged the same way had the case been Gore v. Bush instead of Bush v. Gore, then I think you are among the minority of Americans who think so. I also tell you that only a minority of Americans believes that the next highly charged political case the USSC accepts will be judged purely on the law with no attention to parties.

That is a tragedy and a self-inflicted wound.
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