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Bullshot Donating Member (807 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 06:15 AM
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Do I detect inconsistency among Ohio conservatives?
On the Ohio ballot, voters will vote for three seats on the state supreme court. Some organizations, like the Farm Bureau, are endorsing a straight Republican ticket. The rhetoric they use is, "We must elect people who INTERPRET the law, not CREATE it." This is in response to the DeRolph case, in which the state supreme court declared the state's method of funding schools primarily through real estate taxes as unconstitutional. Parties who want to keep the status quo have complained that the court created law and did not interpret it in making its decision.

Now, many of these same parties are urging everyone to vote for Bush because of the U.S. Supreme Court appointments which will likely occur in the next four years. The big case in connection with this is Roe v. Wade. Now, if Roe v. Wade gets overturned after some new appointments to the SC, aren't the justices creating and not interpreting the law, just like they're accusing the judges of doing in the DeRolph school funding case in Ohio?

Or, am I missing something?
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progdonkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-29-04 07:07 AM
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1. No...
You see, when the Supreme Court handed down the Roe v. Wade judgment, they were creating law. Soooo, if the new conservative Supreme Court were to strike down that ruling, they would just be correcting a creation of law.

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