Posted on 10/07/2002 10:53:40 AM PDT by Howlin
It's done!
Um, the actions of federal senators do affect citizens of all states. In only the Lautenburg amendment to the Brady law only affected NJ!!
Four of the NJ judges were appointed by a republican RINO.
In a sense, we're already along way down that slope. That's what happens when, year after year, scoundrels are elected to office. And they, then, appoint other scoundrels.
There is no system, no Constitution, no tradition that can "save" people from selecting bad leaders. Regardless of how beautifully constructed our Constitution and system are (were), if the people elect criminals as leaders, and if they do it long enough and widely enough, there is nothing that can stop that system from degrading -- not even a Supreme Court.
The only answer is to elect honest, upright people who do not believe in winning at every cost. If that cannot be done, then there is nothing that will save the system.
The Democrats are willing to destroy the system for power. If the people elect them, then they will have the power to do just that. And there's nothing on earth that will stop it.
Unlike what the Buchananites and the Libertarians think, if you lose elections there is no victory "down the road", there is no moral victory. There is only the end of the system.
To preserve the country that we have known, the only answer is to win the elections.
Bastards.
I doubt if she'll stay away from the R's on election day. I don't think she'll want to do anything to help elect a Dem to the Senate.
It was the War Between the States - it did not qualify as a "civil war" as it was not about who would be in power but about secession.
I was talking about our elections and how we have had almost totally peaceful transitions of power.
The dimo party has been taken over by leftist activist attornies. This is how they play the game. The 'pubs are just going to have to adjust.
No, the others on the ballot are Conservative Party, Independent Party ( tends to siphons more Dems than Republicans ) , Socialist Party ( Dem siphon ) and GREEN PARTY ( can we spell R-A-L-P-H N-A-D-E-R !!! )...in fact, Nader was here over the weekend - got almost no press - but he's screaming & yelling about what the Dems did. Green Party is a big time Dem vote siphon!....and I think after what's transpired, it may be even bigger....not many conservatives in that group!
I agree. "The Law" hasn't mattered in a long time, and this just proves it!
This is the right approach... remind people of this whole stunt in a classy way. The only other good thing is that at least Forrester has an opponent... it is very dangerous for him politically to be out there not knowing if he will have an opponent or not.
But, the lumpheaded Republicans in NJ appealed it any way. So now, you've given the Dems the ability to claim that what the NJSCT did was okay, and that the Republican whining was unjustified. A terrible political move by Forrester's campaign.
When the Jersey Supreme Idiots based their vacation of Jersey election law not on the law, nor on any authority granted it by the US Constitution, Congress or the NJ legislature to rule on election law with regard to Senate elections, that vacation became unconstitutional (regardless of SCOTUS' lack of review).
I can see your argument. That said:
1. Under your argument does the vacation of election law trump the right of a state to determine what candidates it will field on the ballot?All open-ended questions - you've persuaded me, to a point. FWIW, I've been concerned from the start that if the GOP successfully barred Lautenberg from the ballot there'd be a big backlash against the party. I don't think the popular view is for the "rule of law", so in a political sense this may not hurt the GOP as much as some may think.2. Does the Constitution speak to the election itself, or also to the means by which candidates will be selected?
3. What effect did the 17th Amendment have on this passage? Did it modify it in any way?
The distinction between Floriduh and N.J. is key. In Floriduh, the FLSC issued a rule resulting in identical ballots for President cast in different Floriduh counties would be counted in different ways. That violates the guarantee of equal protection under the law.
In contrast, the NJSC was at least ostensibly interpreting the statute enacted by the legislature to include an implied, equitable exception to the change of candidate deadline. That is a state issue for state resolution.
The decision was wrong. The remedy is for the New Jersey legislature to impeach the Court or to pass a law clarifying the statute.
The U.S. Supreme Court cannot constitutionally act as a national court correcting the bad decisions of the state courts on matters of state law, and believe me there are a LOT of those bad decisions. It is up to the citizens to reign in trial lawyers and judges who think that instead of interpreters of the law they are lawmakers.
It would be just as wrong to set up a dictatorial Supreme Court to clean up the mess in the state courts as it would be to set up a dictatorial President to do the same.
Still a sickening decision from NJSC and an entirely predictable pass from USSC.
Since the Court uses the "Rule of Four," it takes only four Justices to cause the Court to take a case. That means that at least SIX Justices on the Supreme Court refused to obey their oath of office to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
Words fail in describing how reprehensible, how stupid, how destructive (both now and in the future) this decision not to decide is. I assume that the faithful three, Chief Justice Rehnquist, and Justices Scalia and Thomas, did not go along with this rape of the Constitution. But we will only know that for sure if they dissent from the Order denying certiorari. Justices seldom do that, but may do so if they choose.
At least my predictions were right about the timing of the decision -- just a while after 1 p.m. (#$%%^&&#*(&*^&)
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