CDR: Florida Supreme Court freezes certification
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, George@Orwellian.Org wrote:
Florida Supreme Court freezes certification.
(That's it.)
Hmmm. That would seem to be a violation of separation of powers. The Florida deadline law is very clear. If the Florida Supreme Court wishes to rule on a suit that the Dems bring up then that is their authority, but preventing the Secretary of State from doing her duly appointed job seems to be a violation of separation of powers. What if Jeb Bush told her to do it? Who wins? The executive authority or the judicial? Since when did the Florida Supreme Court have executive authority? jim -- Sometimes it is said that man can not be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question. -- Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, Jim Burnes wrote:
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, George@Orwellian.Org wrote:
Florida Supreme Court freezes certification.
(That's it.)
Hmmm. That would seem to be a violation of separation of powers.
The Florida deadline law is very clear. If the Florida Supreme Court wishes to rule on a suit that the Dems bring up then that is their authority, but preventing the Secretary of State from doing her duly appointed job seems to be a violation of separation of powers.
What if Jeb Bush told her to do it? Who wins? The executive authority or the judicial?
Since when did the Florida Supreme Court have executive authority?
They don't. :) What is more interesting is the fact the the Judiciary has no enforcement powers. Jeb Bush can tell them to go screw and there is not a dam thing that they can do about it. <EG> -- --------------------------------------------------------------- William H. Geiger III http://www.openpgp.net Geiger Consulting Data Security & Cryptology Consulting Programming, Networking, Analysis PGP for OS/2: http://www.openpgp.net/pgp.html ---------------------------------------------------------------
The suits are in the court before the
certifiying deadline. They then have
all the authority in the world.
To not let the certification process complete itself
tomorrow certainly is not good for the Bush camp.
And I do believe Miss Secretary of State will wish she
has not done what she has so far. She in her statements
has not given a case by case reason for rejection. It certainly
will cost her the office she holds in the next election, or any
other public office she might run for.
It's called contempt of court not to comply.
Carol Anne Cypherpunk
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From: "Jim Burnes"
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, George@Orwellian.Org wrote:
Florida Supreme Court freezes certification.
(That's it.)
Hmmm. That would seem to be a violation of separation of powers. Since when did the Florida Supreme Court have executive authority?
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And I do believe Miss Secretary of State will wish she has not done what she has so far. She in her statements has not given a case by case reason for rejection. It certainly will cost her the office she holds in the next election, or any other public office she might run for.
IIRC, and I probably don't, the Florida constitution was recently amended so as to make the positio9n of Secretary of State an elected one.
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IIRC, and I probably don't, the Florida constitution was recently amended so as to make the positio9n of Secretary of State an elected one.
Er, make that appointed. I don't know what the 9 means.
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