Venezuela looks to S.American leaders as toll hits 20

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44. Yes.

It is a shame that extremely wealthy 1% RW extremists like Lopez, Capriles, and Machado, (etc.) have co-opted the original student protests and tarnished their legitimacy, and are now using them as a possible means for the RW to take control of Venezuela.

Nothing good can come from a RW takeover of any country, anywhere.

Remember this covert RW coup, my friend? And the consequences past, present and future?

The Court's Decision

The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 5–4 decision, stated that the Supreme Court of Florida had violated the U.S. Constitution when it ordered the recount only in certain districts, and that the recount had already been tainted by shifting methods of vote-counting. Both of these, it said, violated the equal-protection guarantees of the Fourteenth Amendment. The court then said that there was no way to hold an acceptable recount by the final election deadline. As a result, it ordered the recounts abandoned, effectively naming Bush the winner of the national election. By the time of the decision, a month had passed since the nation had cast its ballots.

The Court's decision ended the speculation on who would be president, but it remains a highly controversial moment in the Court's history. Even the Justices themselves couldn't agree on many aspects of the case. Two majority opinions and four minority opinions were filed, each citing different reasons for its author's decision. Some people argue that the Court had no business taking on the case at all, and that it should have let the Florida Supreme Court's decision stand without comment. Others have said that the way that the judicial decisions throughout the case split along party lines—Republicans sided with Bush, and Democrats sided with Gore—provided evidence that the case was decided by politics, not by law.

The details of Bush v. Gore will probably be argued over for a long time. However, the decision was made, and history was made with it.

As they say, the rest is history, and the history resulting from RW government is never good.

Great post, btw!