Today's Supreme Court Hearing

The Bush camp argues that the Florida Supreme Court changed state law – for the second time – when it ordered yet another deadline for counting disputed ballots and the official certification of votes. The U.S. Constitution is clear. The power to select a state’s electors lies in the state’s legislature, not the state judiciary. The Florida constitution doesn’t enter into the picture. The legislature sets the rules, and the Florida Supreme Court justices aren’t free to change those rules after the fact on the basis of some vague "one person, one vote" guarantee in the Florida constitution.

As for Gore’s team? All they seem to have to go on is this idea that courts have every right to interpret conflicting state laws. All find and dandy, but just where are the conflicts in Florida law? The Florida justices haven’t been resolving conflicts, they’ve been making law. They’ve acted as a Democrat-dominated court making law for the benefit of a Democratic candidate.

Does anyone think all of this recount stuff has been fair?

Consider Miami-Dade County, where the Gorons absolutely expected to pick up a lot of votes. Prior to the first time the U.S. Supreme Court halted the Miami-Dade recount, the votes being recounted were coming solely from heavily Democratic precincts. These were the precincts where everyone, even the Bush supporters, expected Gore to pick up votes. In this initial recount,

Then the U.S. Supreme Court stepped in to overrule the Florida Supreme Court decision and the counting stopped.

Fast-forward a few days to the next ruling of the Florida Supreme Court. When it came back with that split decision ordering yet another recount, there was a bit of a twist. The Florida Supreme Court ordered that the votes Gore picked up in the Miami-Dade recount that the U.S. Supreme Court halted would be included in the Gore totals!

Remember, that was a recount of heavily Democratic precincts of all the votes, not just the undervotes. Then the Florida Supreme Court ordered that the recount proceed, but for the remainder of the recount they were only to recount the undervotes. Just those ballots where the machines didn’t register a vote for president.

The net effect was to allow a recount of all ballots in heavily Democratic precincts of Miami-Dade, but only counting undervotes when recounting those precincts carried by George Bush.

If that all seems equitable to you, you have to be a Democrat and/or an idiot.

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The next two years for the Democrats will be critical – they have to bend public opinion their way, and they have to do it quickly. Of course, they will benefit in this regard by their collaboration with the mainstream media. So prepare for a liberal public relations onslaught of such catchphrases as: "Americans were disenfranchised" and "The Republican Party didn't want your vote to count" and "The will of the people was not heard."

And look for continued trashing of the U.S. Supreme Court if it, as expected, rules that the Florida Supreme Court overreached and acted illegally.

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