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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 10:53 PM
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Missouri Supreme Court May Decide National Election!
Edited on Fri May-21-04 11:03 PM by usregimechange
Here is why:

1, The GOP controlled legislature added a ban gay marriage amendment to alter the state constitution.

2, Gov. Holden (D) set the election date for August not November.

3, If the vote was in November, during the presidential elections, many fundies would come out to vote.

4, Matt Blunt (R) the Sec. of State (also, as a coincidence, running for governor--- also the son of wacko GOP Roy Phillip Morris Blunt) has declared the Holden hasn't the authority to set the date because congressional leaders haven't signed it yet.

5, A local court agreed with Blunt. "Activist Judge?"

6, Nixon, attorney general of MO (D) appealed to an appeals court.

7, MO is a major swing/battleground state.

8, Appeals court hear the case Monday.
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usregimechange Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 11:04 PM
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1. Geez, guys I thought this was significant. n/t
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Old and In the Way Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 11:06 PM
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2. It is....certainly a story worth watching.
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freetobegay Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 11:10 PM
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3. IMO
Edited on Fri May-21-04 11:32 PM by freetobegay
SCOTUS will decide this election as it did in 2000. On that note though I believe Sandra day Oconner will not vote the same way she did in 2000. I believe she has seen the error of her vote.
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teryang Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-21-04 11:30 PM
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4. The supreme court could sink this mistake
...of a government right now, by coming out early with adverse decisions on padilla and the other "enemy combatant" case. A definitive statement that circumvention of constitutional guarantees will not be tolerated will add judicial fiat to the public outrage of extra-judicial human rights violations. Restoration of due process guarantees will deflate the fascist movement. It will become fashionable to honor treaties and rule of law again.

It would be taken by all as the signal that the drunken careless binge of destruction and willful indifference to law is over.
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