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


To: Don Pueblo who wrote (109122)12/10/2000 5:14:54 AM
From: Zoltan!  Respond to of 769667
 
Some trenchant layman's analysis:

"....That's why the U.S. Supreme Court initially tried to punt the case back to the Florida court and urged it to tread carefully - instead, the Florida court said "Bleep you" to the nation's highest court, as Northwestern University constitutional law professor Stephen Presser put it.

So the U.S. Supreme Court was faced with the fact that either it made the rulings to decide who is president - or it would let the Florida Supreme Court act as if it was the nation's highest court.

Florida's Supreme Court voted 4-3 to change the rules for picking the president with new hand-counts that its own chief justice called unconstitutional - would the U.S. Supreme Court stand by and watch?..."
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