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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Carl R. who wrote (85558)	11/22/2000 10:40:09 PM
From: Bob	Respond to of 769670

Excellent post Carl. It used to be courts enforced and upheld the law. But now, interpreting the law is very much in vogue. Unfortunately, the interpreting part takes on a very partisan air.

To: Carl R. who wrote (85558)	11/22/2000 10:46:51 PM
From: Mr. Palau	Respond to of 769670

I dont think the US Supreme Court is going to get involved to sort out an allegation that one branch of a state government violated the separation of powers established in a state constitution. I dont see what the federal issue is there; there are no federal separation of powers issues presented. I think their primary federal arguments concern allegatins that the manual count procedures violate equal protection and due process, which I think we've discussed previously. The amusing aspect of this is that if the Justices stay true to their principles, the conservatives like Scalia and Thomas -- who have authored many strong federalist opinions in recent years -- would be the least interested in intervening in this state election dispute, while Clinton appointees like Breyer might the most sympathetic to a claim that state procedures violated federal civil rights laws. In other words, Bush's best hope is that the "liberal activitists" on the Court carry the day. A bit ironic.

To: Carl R. who wrote (85558)	11/22/2000 11:05:24 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Respond to of 769670

Carl, I believe that Bush will win, but after the SC ruling this case will still go to THE SC because of the Florida SC rulings the trampled the constitution. I think that this is good and the ultimate rule of Law on Common Sense will show the world how America emerges from what looks like a messy muddle stronger and confident and the best country in the world for giving citizen's the best equal opportunity to be all that they can be. Remember No taxation without representation dumped the tea. No ballot counting without visualization representation dumped the chad. watman.com Patriots of Dade County at the door expressing the will of the people to the Board of Canvasers that had hid itself away to special count the dimples in secret. Tom Watson tosiwmee

To: Carl R. who wrote (85558)	11/22/2000 11:30:55 PM
From: KevinMark	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

A clear biased partisan decision, especially since they failed to recognize the power of the Secretary of State upholding the law, YET the same Supreme Justices recognized the law of the electoral college vote on the 12th, therefore setting a deadline for any further litigation to be handled before hand. A hypocrisy of all sorts. If there's any reform to come out of this, I hope to see the American people will be able to vote in Supreme Justices, rather than being selected by partisanship. KM