New NJ Senate Absentee Ballots Mailed Out Today-SCOTUS Watch Thread

ABC News and the Newark Star Ledger ^ | October 7, 2002 | Mark Halperin

[tip of the sword]

Presumably, the SCOTUS Justices are aware of the State Supreme Court testimony that whatever ballots are going out the door need to be moving by Tuesday or Wednesday of this week, which suggests denial of cert, or the scheduling of some arguements, better happen pretty darn quick.

As the Newark Star Ledger reports, new absentee ballots are being sent out today, and since those ballots are now valid under New Jersey state law, the court would have to essentially have to declare them null and void, potentially disenfranchising a small portion of the electorate.

With two sets of ballots in play, the potential for mass confusion remains.

[tip of the sword]

The Rats were preparing 300 new ballots this Saturday (stuffing envelopes on a weekend more like it)

When was the last time anyone in state Government did anything on the weekend!

[steveegg]

It seems that David Souter dragged his feet long enough for the RATs to win. Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!

[tip of the sword]

Full details of the 900 ballot weekend Rat stuffing party in Essex Couty, NJ http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1033895862127400.xml

[Mo1]

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[Huck]

Looks like Lautenberg is in.

[Tree of Liberty]

What's going on with AG Ashcroft? He contacted the interested parties a few days ago asking them to show that the state's conduct in this matter does not run afoul of federal voting laws applicable to the military.

[tip of the sword]

Not if Souter boots his butt off the ballot! This doesn't even have to go to a formal arguement, the Justices can agree today and take his name right off..

[rhombus]

All Souter was doing when he asked for clarification was asking the Dems to write the SCOTUS response.

[tip of the sword]

ABC reported that Ashcroft could file an Amicus brief on behalf of the Government today with SCOTUS.

[MHGinTN]

With two sets of ballots in play, the potential for mass confusion remains. Precisely what the despotic democrat party had planned, chaos, mayhem, confusion, and cheating with democrat controlled court approval.

[Teacher317]

"When a judge is going to issue a stay of a lower-court order, it usually happens very quickly," Siegel said.

Richard Perr, an adjunct professor at Rutgers Law School in Camden, said, "The longer it goes, the greater the likelihood that the Supreme Court may not even take it."

:^(

[steveegg]

Souter? Boot a fellow DemonRAT off a ballot when said RAT has reversed the fortunes of the local party? Do so after the RATs took a lesson of 2000 to heart and made sure that their new guy went out on the "revised" ballots? I don't think so.

[tip of the sword]

I don't think it took them this long on Bush v. Gore..

[steveegg]

Somewhat agree. What he did was stall for enough time for the "revised" ballots to go out and create the proverbial "reality on the ground" that would preclude SCOTUS from delivering the well-deserved smackdown.

[steveegg]

It's apparently too late now (thanks a lot Bush41 and Souter).

[tip of the sword]

Was Souter the 'duty judge' back in 2000 to decide whether to take the cases or not?

[Tree of Liberty]

Thanks for the report. Does anyone know what powers the AG has under the Voter Rights Act to prevent the new ballots from being distributed?

[freedomcrusader]

And don't forget the idiot in Vermont who made Souetr possible - Sununu is his name.

[twyn1]

One of the arguments that the 2nd Republican lawyer brought up was this confusion and very REAL possibility of some "funny business" with counting the ballots, it was suggested that absentee ballots will be "delayed" and not counted until well after the election results...(as in "gee Lautenberg still needs 600 votes to pull it off...oh lookee here...I JUST FOUND all these absentee ballots that we still have to count") The "Justices" could not imagine that something like that would EVER happen

[steveegg]

I think the "duty judge" in 2000 was Scalia (IIRC, each justice takes a region of the country). I do know that the "duty judge" for cases coming from New Jersey is Souter.