The Supremes Robe Up For Act Two
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the waters of the next presidential election, the Jaws soundtrack thrums in the background. We may wake up screaming. In any event, we will surely wake up the day after the elections litigating. The Supremes brought us here, that frivolous judicial nine, tap-dancing their way into the 2000 election from stage-left, robes flapping and rolling their eyes.
In that vote-along-party-lines flight of fancy with which they seated an unelected president, they promised us a “one-off” decision that would have no bearing on legal precedence. Sure! Here we are, a couple weeks ahead of the 2004 election and chaotic circumstances abide in several of the swing states, with Florida once again leading the pack. The European Commission is sending observers to an American election as if we were a banana republic.
Perhaps we are.
At any rate, lawyers from both parties are zeroing in on approximately 30,000 precincts that one or both sides consider opportunist…