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

Same question I was asking during the Florida 2000 fiasco. I was flamed repeatedly for saying that the feds had no business interfering.

Big difference. In Florida, they were changing the rules of the election after the fact in order to change the outcome of a federal election, something specifically forbidden. In this case, they are interfering in a process specifically enshrined in a state constitution regargding the election of a state official. Apples and oranges, my friend.

422 posted on 09/15/2003 11:30:42 AM PDT by concerned about politics (Lucifers lefties are still stuck at the bottom of Maslow's Hierarchy)

The Florida electorate had the right to remove the rogue judges. That wouldn't have helped Bush, but it would have done something even more important: It would have upheld the concept of federalism.

445 posted on 09/15/2003 11:34:27 AM PDT by snopercod (Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:)