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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Raymond Duray who wrote (3393)	11/26/2000 12:06:29 AM
From: TraderGreg	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 6710

<<The involvement of the U.S. Supreme Court is essential to provide for the legitimacy of the eventual winner of the contest in Florida.>> It is absolutely critical to legitimizing a Gore victory...and it would indeed legitimize it. Here's why: The Honorable Court: Breyer--Clinton appointee Ginsburg--Clinton appointee Thomas--Bush appointee Souter--Bush appointee Scalia--Reagan appointee Kennedy--Reagan appointee O'Connor--Reagan appointee Stevens--Ford appointee Rehnquist--Nixon appointee There is not a Republican alive today, including the great William F. Buckley, who could spin the party out of a favorable Gore ruling by the above Court. It is absolutely impossible for the Gore side to get a "victory" in the U.S. Supreme Court without at least THREE Republican appointed members of the Court siding with them, in the case of a 5-4 decision. Moreover, anticipating that the Republican right have dubbed Souter and Stevens as turncoats to the faith, in a 5-4 Gore decision, there would still be at least one member of the Conservative side of the Court that would be supporting the Gore position. And in a 6-3 decision, that would imply at least TWO members of the conservative bloc supported Gore. TG