A LAYMAN'S GUIDE TO THE SUPREME COURT DECISION IN BUSH V. GORE by Mark H. Levine, Attorney at Law.

[kster]

Q: I'm not a lawyer and I don't understand the recent Supreme Court decision in Bush v. Gore. Can you explain it to me?

A: Sure. I'm a lawyer. I read it. It says Bush wins, even if Gore got the most votes.

Q: So Bush wins because hand-counts are illegal?

A: Oh no. Six of the justices (two-thirds majority) believed the hand-counts were legal and should be done.

Q: Oh. So the justices did not believe that the hand-counts would find any legal ballots?

A. Nope. The five conservative justices clearly held (and all nine justices agreed) "that punch card balloting machines can produce an unfortunate number of ballots which are not punched in a clean, complete way by the voter." So there are legal votes that should be counted but can't be.

Q: Oh. Does this have something to do with states' rights? Don't conservatives love that?

A: Generally yes. These five justices, in the past few years, have held that the federal government has no business telling a sovereign state university it can't steal trade secrets just because such stealing is prohibited by law. Nor does the federal government have any business telling a state that it should bar guns in schools. Nor can the federal government use the equal protection clause to force states to take measures to stop violence against women.



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Just thought you guys might like to see this

[Selatius]

1. It gets even worse as you read on. You quoted the least worrying parts, imho. n/t

[grasswire]

2. Mark Levine???????????

(*$*$^OP@#*&$^@%%%%%

Traitor. Traitor. Traitor.

[kster]

3. Mark Levine is wrong about how the Supreme court Hijacked the 2000 election????

not sure what your getting at.

The Supreme Court was like Mom and Dad, the vote/counting machine crooks messed up and the Supreme court had to come in and clean up their mess.

[kster]

4. k n t

[autorank]

5. What a great site that is.

My apologies for being late. This is great stuff. I love the site!

[BradBlog]

6. K&R'd for the good kster...