Gore Gives up

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Dec 13 13:25:53 PST 2000


Jordan Hayes wrote:


>Doug asks:
>
>> Clearly some body had to make some kind of final decision,
>> politically speaking, and given the prestige and power of the
>> SC, why not them? After all, they're the ones who decide whether
>> abortion is legal, whether segregation is acceptable, whether
>> cops can stop us in the street and search us. So why not this?
>
>Straight line: because electing the President is left up to the states?

Yeah, but so is education, in theory, but then there was this decision called Brown v. Board of Eduation. By what sophistry can the selection of a president not be a federal question?

Doug



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