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

To: hdl who wrote (113940)	12/13/2000 8:50:49 AM
From: jlallen	Respond to of 769670

Because that is the law and they knew the USSC stood ready to slap them down if they acted without authority again. JLA

To: hdl who wrote (113940)	12/13/2000 8:51:22 AM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 769670

>>why did fl sup ct affirm seminole, martin and other cases which favored bush? They could only overrule just so many precedents w/o facing impeachment. And the Real Supremes had them by the collar.

To: hdl who wrote (113940)	12/13/2000 8:58:42 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Because there was no wiggle room. In order to be consistent in the affirmation of the importance of every vote, they had to uphold. Furthermore, since there was no way to correlate applications with ballots, the remedy that had been demanded by plaintiffs was to throw out all absentee ballots. This remedy, if granted, would have immediately been overturned in federal court as a violation of the Voting Rights Act, since it would have penalized voters indiscriminately........