US Supreme Court's power grab (was Re: Query)

[Carl Remick]

>Carl Remick wrote:
>
>>For my part, I'm surprised by the relative lack of reaction here on
>>the list to the US Supreme Court's naked power grab.  We can produce
>>miles of scorched bandwidth over the proper interpretation of Max
>>Weber -- a legitmate topic to be sure but hardly topical -- but seem
>>to have little reaction at all to the black-robed coup d'etat now in
>>progress.  Of course, I implicate myself in this criticism.  Twice
>>this past weekend I sat down at the PC to draft proper fulminations
>>on this subject for the list only to be seized by a sense of
>>futility.
>>
>>Justin, Nathan, do you want to want to offer any hymns to the glory
>>of the law today?
>
>At the risk of incurring the wrath of Michael Hoover, there's a poll
>in today's WSJ showing that 63% of the public thinks that were Bush
>to become president, he would have won office legitmately, vs. 29%
>who'd see him as illegit; for Gore, the numbers are 48% and 43%
>respectively. "Taking into account everything that's happened over
>the past few weeks, who do you think ought to be president?" Bush,
>51%; Gore, 40%.
>
>Doug

My mistake.  I'll take the results of a Wall Street Journal poll over the 
results of a national popular vote count any day ;-)

Carl

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