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

To: Selectric II who wrote (122976)	1/21/2001 5:13:51 PM
From: mst2000	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

Your answer reflects profound ignorance of conservative principles of jurisprudence. Believe me, Kennedy and O'Connor were very careful to say in their opinion that this case would be applied VERY narrowly -- restricted to this one case -- because the principles it is founded upon it contradict every notion of federal restraint in the face of a state supreme court deciding what its own law means that has ever existed among conservative legal theorists. If the facts in this case had been been the other way around (Bush behind by 500 votes asking for recounts in 3 GOP counties with an abnormally high number of undervotes relative to the rest of the state, and Gore trying to stop the counts, include using a state official associated with his campaign to exercise her authority in a way that blatantly violated or ignored the law), there is absolutely no way those 5 conservative judges would have voted the same way -- it would have been 9-0 to let the counts continue as order by the FSC, and then leave it up to Congress to decide (when the electoral votes are counted -- on 1/6/01) if Florida picked two competing slates of electors. They would never have interfered in that outcome. This was a political act, and Bush is nothing more than an appointee. He is NOT the democratically elected President of this Coutry, and there are tens of millions who see it exactly the same way. We are not sore losers - we are bitter victims of a political crime.