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To: Jim Noble
I'm sure you have a point. Let's hear it.
28 posted on 12/09/2003 6:01:21 PM PST by calljack (Sometimes your worst nightmare is just a start.)
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To: calljack
The Supreme Court has no-zero, zip, zilch, nada-authority over the appointment of electors for President and Vice-President, which is a function of state legislatures.

The attempted usurpation of authority by the Florida Supreme Court was not unconstitutional-it was extraconstitutional.

The correct solution was for the Florida Legislature to appoint electors and so certify to the President of the Senate, as directed by the Eleventh Amendment.

Since the House in January 2001 had a majority of states with majority Republican delegations, and since the Senate was organized by the Republicans, George Bush would have been legally and constitutionally elected President without further enlarging the already too large powers of the Supreme Court, which is not and was never intendd to be an electoral tribunal.

54 posted on 12/09/2003 6:47:15 PM PST by Jim Noble
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