Re: So, What IS a Fascist, anyway? Answer: nothing but a favorite swearword of leftists.

"chicagofan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Jonathan Ball wrote:
> >
> > They ruled that the electoral provisions of the U.S. Constitution
were
> > being subverted by the Democrats' frivolous attempts to stall the
> > Florida results.
>
> Frivolous?  Republicans filed the first law suit; which eventually
resulted in
> the USSC effectively halting the ultimate *true* counts of all
ballots.
>
> Overriding the Florida State SC was/is reason enough for me to
consider him the
> USSC *appointed* president.  Whether you and half the U.S. consider
him legally
> elected, matters not to me; he is NOT my president.  He holds the
office... period.
> bj

The problem with the Bush v. Gore decision is that State law, not the
Federal law, controls the voting process, including electoral procedures
and vote counting.  The Court's use of a specious 14th Amendment
argument is widely viewed by most legal scholars, including the
dissenting Justices, as laughable.  The decision was, literally,
unprecedented.  The majority did not cite any precedent to support their
decision.  The Supreme Court violated its own longstanding doctrine that
it must defer to state Supreme Courts in interpreting and applying state
laws.  Nonetheless, they are the Supreme Court, they have ruled, and the
case is closed.  Like it or not, Bush is our lawful and legitimate
President, according to law.  I think it is fair to criticize and
critique the process and the events leading to that result, but I don't
think that the final result can be questioned.

Jeff