Bush v. Gore II, Court Gives Congress Power to Decide Local Elections

[McCamy Taylor]

The SCOTUS attempted to make the medicine go down more easily by claiming that its decision in Bush v. Gore was one time only. This was not to be a precedent setting opinion. The federal government was not going to make a habit of interferring in the way that states and local areas handle their elections.

Yeah. Right.

Tell that to the citizens of California whose Congressional run-off election was hijacked by Dennis Hasturt and the House Republicans. Using a provisional vote count, the US House GOP selected one of two candidates and decided to appoint him to fill Duke Cunningham's seat. This was before all the votes were counted and all the legal challenges were cast. There were real questions to be answered, like why the voting machines were sent home with election workers before voting day in violation of Calfornia election law. The actual deadline for certifying the vote had not even been reached.

But the Republican party decided that it had some kind of overwhelming interest in getting that election over and the GOP candidate into Congress, so Hasturt swore him in. And now a Caifornia court has ruled that the US Congress has the power to over-ride state and local governments' constitutionally protected right to hold elections to choose their own representatives.

You read that correctly. You the voter do not get to decide who represents you in Washington. Washington will decide who represents you. This is the second time we have been told as much by our "liberal" courts. Does anyone doubt that this lower court had Bush v. Gore in mind when it made this ruling? Ten years ago, the idea of handing control of elections over to the federal government in this way would have been unheard of. However, the climate of the United States has changed. Now, courts which uphold the Constitition are vilified, the judges attacked and threatened, while cases like this one, which stand Constitutional Law on their head, get no press at all.

Welcome to BushLand. Three quarters the taxation, NO representation. Constitution optional. If Congress gets to decide whom to seat, why the hell are we holding Congressional elections this fall? Do we really think that Hasturt and Frist will pay any attention to the wishes of the American people, at the risk of losing their own jobs?

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0608/S00372.htm

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=3353

"'Under our form of government the judicial department has no power to revise even the most arbitrary and unfair action of the legislative department, or of either house thereof,'" From the judges opinion.

[marmar]

1. I have just about had it with Amurka....this version of it, anyway.

Maybe I can click my heels three times and wake up in Amsterdam.

[ChiciB1]

2. Gotcha... Bottom Line.... It's How The Game Is Played, Who Has

a man on first & third, and who has one second. Last time I looked first came BEFORE second and of course then comes third. But third is kinda of the "mop up" crew, so second gets squeezed. Obvious reaction is that you just end up "wondering," knowing you're not going to get an answer if they don't WANT to give you answer. I think the term is stone-walling!

Life's little kinks that makes us very angry, but "We" don't feel we can actually "Do" anything about it because we feel somebody's screwing somebody, but at times we can't find the critical evidence to make the case.

Kind makes you feel like you're in the Dug-Out most of the time!