November 2, 2004
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Voting is Patriotic.
from http://www.electoral-vote.com/
SCOTUS news: Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist announced last week that he was going to return to the Supreme Court yesterday. He did not return. According to the New York Times his office released a terse statement saying that the Chief Justice spent 7 days at Bethesda Naval Hospital where he was treated for thyroid cancer. He underwent a tracheotomy so he could breathe and he is now being given both chemotherapy and radiation treatment. Medical experts say this evidence suggests that the cancer was not successfully removed and that even with heroic treatment, patients with this type of cancer usually die within a year. Should the election end up in the Supreme Court, it is not known whether Rehnquist will particpate in the case and vote on the outcome. Should he decline to participate due to ill health, the deadlock in the country might end up in a Court itself deadlocked 4-4. In such an event, the lower court ruling stands but no legal precedent is set. An alternative scenario is that Chief Justice Rehnquist resigns and that President Bush makes a recess appointment, which does not require Senate confirmation. If Bush were to appoint a new justice without Senate confirmation who then cast the deciding vote to make Bush president I fear for the future of the country. Let us hope somebody wins big today with no litigation. Do your part and vote.
Comments (14)
Anybody is better than another fiasco like last year… Next year when I travel out west we will have to visit a club
We’re not voting for President, we’re voting for the next Supreme Court. That’s for damn sure.
I, too, hope the election is decisive. I do believe that Bush would cheat any which way be could.
if bush wins ill never come to your country!
yes everybody go vote!!
“Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.”
-George Bernard Shaw
I think that would be great if it was a dead lock. It would be nice to see americans passionate about something other then themselves and their pocket books, and even thinking about government. I personally cannot vote, I have no one to represent me.
thanks for the link — i did a biography presnetation on gilda when i was in 8th grade, and ever since, i have just LOVED her. she’s great stuff (the link worked!) thanks again
Lawyers deciding who gets to be president scares the crap out of me – and yet it seems we’re so close to that. I was watching some of the coverage, and in one state, I think Florida, lawyers or operatives from both parties were allowed into precincts to “watch over the vote.”
While making sure no fraud occurs is a good thing, I’d rather have election officials/police do that. I just fear that should this vote be as close as predicted, there will be way too many challenges in way too many states, and we may end up worse than last time.
Too much is at stake right now to have to wait any length of time in limbo.
You’ll probably find that Bush takes it by a fair margin.
Steve
I’m just watching… from outside.
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Well, three outa four ain’t bad. Right?
I fear that after the 2000 debacle, litigation will be part and parcel of every election from now until forever.
C’mon Tecumseh!!!
hugz
Dude, yeah. Yeah. ( i wish I had something happy to comment about, but really I’m not so happy right now–didn’t think it’d affect me like this)
That theo Van Gogh thing is crazy. I keep hearing about it on NPR.