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To: sickoflibs
Bush vs Gore ignored the constitution.

In what way? Which Article, Section and Clause did it ignore?

48 posted on 08/25/2009 2:42:03 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

SCOTUS should have stayed out of it and made Congress (& the Florida lege) sort it out... if Congress had been forced to do its duty in sorting out the 2000 election, there would have been more political pressure on them to deal with the usurper 2008 election situation back in January.


49 posted on 08/25/2009 2:48:28 PM PDT by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: El Gato
This is from Levin’s book Men in Black

Article 2 Sect 1 Clause 2 of US constitution says State legislatures determine how delegates are chosen, not the federal government, which includes the SCOTUS.

This is not to say that Gore would have been elected if a recount was in his favor, Gov Bush already certified the electors. But the SCOTUS stopped the recounting to take the heat so democrats could not blame Jeb for deciding in his brothers favor. It was purely political and the decision applies to so other election according to the SCOTUS ruling.

52 posted on 08/25/2009 8:36:11 PM PDT by sickoflibs (Socialist Conservatives: "'Big government is free because tax cuts pay for it'")
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