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To: tejek who wrote (159033)	1/27/2003 6:05:20 PM
From: TimF	Respond to of 1580261

He didn't simply object, he blocked its implementation. Can you see the distinction? What specifically are you claiming he did? They do.......when and where? As far as I know they can rule for or against a law. You can not block its implementation They can rule against a law, they can rule against part of it, they can order a stay against implimenting it while the case goes on, or why they study it, or until a report is generated. Then you submit a case to the US Supreme Court. If a judge thinks a law in unconstitutional he rules it so. It has to go through a lot of levels to reach the USSC. If an elected offical thinks the law is unconsitutional then he believes it is illegal, that he has no right to impliment it because the constitution does not give him that power. I think too often the other branches of government ignore th limitations of the constitution thinking they will just vote for or impliment whatever and its fine until and unless the USSC says otherwise. I disagree with that way of thinking. The state was 35% black and heavily segregated. Yet there was not a black legislator in office until 1980, 15 years after the law was passed in 1965. You do the math. The law was in effect well before 1980. It may have not gotten the desired result of eliminating racisms effect on the elections, but that isn't the same thing. Also Pickering did not stand in the way of the law for 15 years. At most he delayed it a little at the begining. You claim would require a lot more power then Pickering had. Tim