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

To: SecularBull who wrote (117934)	12/19/2000 7:14:00 PM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Under the Florida constitution, which is enacted every 5 years in Florida by the legislature, there is judicial review of all legislative enactments. That is the law of Florida. If there is a problem, you go to the FSC. You do not go to SCOTUS unless the matter involves a distinct federal issue justifying federal intrusion into state law. In this case, what we had was clearly an issue of state law, with minimal federal connections at all (and to the extent they existed, it was Congress, and not SCOTUS, that had the power to resolve them). All I am saying is that it was a bad decision legally. If SCOTUS had done the right thing legally, they would have declined to intervene in the case, and, assuming Gore won on the recount (which is an assumption that Bush could have, and you would have thought would have wanted to have, proven wrong -- were he not so fearful that the recount would show what everybody knows is the truth, which is that Bush lost Florida), this all would have ended in the Congress on January 6, with a vote by Congress between the slate of electors selected by the Florida legislature after the election (clearly illegitimate) and the slate of electors certified for Gore as a result of the Court case. Knowing the partisan bent of the congressional GOP, the outcome in all likelihood would have been the same -- the difference is that the agents who would have brought Bush into the White House by slapping down the final vote counts in Florida which favored Gore would have been politically accountable for that action -- not lifetime judicial appointees who are not politically accountable for their acts [and who wanted Bush to win so they (i) could retire (O'Connor and Rehnquist), (ii) become Chief Justice (Scalia), (iii) see their sons' law firm win (Scalia), or (iv) give real meaning and content to his wife's job of screening resumes for a Bush administration (Thomas)]. Please have the sense and fairness to acknowledge that this is just about the worst possible way Bush could have won this. And enjoy the next four years -- you will no doubt enjoy them more than I will.