Today at the Supreme Court | 3.7.08

Friday, March 7th, 2008 12:01 am | Ben Winograd | Print This Post

No oral arguments are scheduled and no non-capital orders are expected to be issued today from the Court. If any orders are issued in pending cases, we will post them promptly.



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  1. Hello,

    I am a Florida Democrat. I am upset that the DNC will not count my vote. I know that there was already a suit filed.

    Could this be appealed to the Supreme Court?

    It seems to me that the disenfranchisement of Florida and Michigan by the DNC is every bit as critical as Gore v. Bush.

    I strongly believe that the DNC should not be allowed to disenfranchise states for not meeting their arbitrary rules.

    If this is not “unconstitutional”, I don’t know what is!

    How would one go about bringing this issue to the Supreme Court?

    Comment by Jack W. Orf — March 7, 2008 @ 9:09 am

  2. I do not buy the ABSURD notion that the Democratic Party is some kind of “private” organization that can do whatever it chooses. This is ridiculous.

    When was the last time that a President was elected who was not a Democrat or a Republican?

    Denying me the right, as a certified Florida Democratic voter, to participate in determining who the Presidential candidate is is certainly a violation of the Equal Protection clause (whatever THAT is (I’m not a lawyer)).

    Comment by Jack W. Orf — March 7, 2008 @ 9:15 am

  3. Mr. Orf: I don’t have time to flip through Supreme Court decisions, but the basic answer to your question is that while people in the states of Florida and Michigan have a right to vote for the presidency, they do not have a right to vote in the primaries. Primaries are regulated by the parties by rules they choose to adopt. It was known quite a while ago that the DNC could, as a punishment, refuse to seat delegates from a state whose local party organization violated internal party rules for choosing a presidential candidate. These two states did so. Only now, that the race has become so close, has the chorus to undo this gotten loud.

    Comment by James N. Markels — March 7, 2008 @ 3:38 pm

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