Originally Posted by benjamin
From this point onward I would be arguing the Dershowitz point of view and you would be arguing the Antonin Scalia point of view. This is an issue of constitutional interpretation pertaining to the power of the Court and states rights.
I'm not a lawyer so all I have here is my opinion, which is that the Court should not have stopped a recount of ballots in an election that would have been decided by the final vote count. The Court, not the votes, decided the election, and that is simply wrong.
it is your opinion that it is wrong, but this case is a perfect example of why we have the supreme court and the other two branches of the government. there are other provisions that could have forced the election to be decided by the legislative branch as well. would that have been any less "wrong" by your standards? our laws, constitution, and federal government are setup in a way to provide for these kinds of circumstances. in this case, you happen to disagree with the outcome. that's too bad. if they had ruled the other way and gore had one, i might be pretty unhappy. personal opinions do not make supreme court decisions illegal or unconstitutional