G.O.P. Asks Supreme Court to Void Ruling on Torricelli

Rebuffed by their own top state court, New Jersey Republicans appealed to the United States Supreme Court today to overturn a ruling that allowed Democrats to replace Senator Robert G. Torricelli's name on the Nov. 5 ballot. [read more]

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Talking Points Memo has a couple of good posts on this.

The money quote from the New Jersey Supreme Court ballot case came from Justice Peter G. Verniero, a former Chief Counsel, Chief of Staff and later Supreme Court appointee of former Governor Christie Whitman. "Didn't Mr. Forrester call for Mr. Torricelli to withdraw?" he said in response to a protesting Republican attorney during oral arguments. "Was he expecting to run unopposed?"

That about sums it up. [read more]

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Nothing sounds quite so tinny as self-righteous indignation. Until you come to Republican self- righteous indignation. [read more]

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Joe Conason has some good comments.

Joe Conason's Journal
New Jersey's crybaby Republicans should try to campaign on the issues.

Running to the justices who put Bush in the White House makes Forrester look like an utter weenie. He should stand up and fight. And he shouldn't be too confident that Rehnquist and company will favor him. They may not want historians to record that this court tried to give Republicans control of the Senate as well as the White House. [read more]

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