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

To: brutusdog who wrote (112171)	12/12/2000 1:16:08 PM
From: donjuan_demarco	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Brutusdog the USSC has a real tar baby on its hands. The one and ONLY issue to be decided is: What constitutes a legal vote in a state election in the state of Florida? This is so far from being a federal issue it's laughable. It is up to the state legislature to determine how electors and appointed, and the Florida legislature decided to do that through a winner-take-all statewide election, with that election to be conducted under the relevant state law applicable to elections in general. So, how can there possibly be a federal issue there? The one and ONLY question is "what constitutes a valid vote in a state election?" There is simply no way for the USSC to trump the FSC with respect to that question. So, the only way the USSC could rule in Bush's favor is to claim that the court itself has plenary power to resolve disputes in presidential elections. The problem that is that WOULD BE UNCONSTITUTIONAL.