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To: A_Niceguy_in_CA
How does a Federal Court have jurisdiction over a state election for a state office?

Brit Hume just asked the same question..

280 posted on 09/15/2003 11:06:48 AM PDT by Dog
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To: Dog
There's no legitimate oversight, imo, but the 14th amendment (which the North forced the South to ratify as one of the conditions to re-enter a union the North also says they never left) gives legal authority for federal intervention.
324 posted on 09/15/2003 11:13:15 AM PDT by Tree of Liberty
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