Eight Strikes and You're Out
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Gregorio Igartúa de la Rosa needs a new hobby.
His old hobby was suing — and suing, and suing, and then suing again — to try to circumvent the Constitution's plain dictate that only residents of bona fide states (and, since 1961, the District of Columbia) get to participate in thevote for Electoral College process of selecting the president and vice president.
But now the Supreme Court has denied certiorari to the last of Igartúa de la Rosa's appeals and the issue is (one would hope) dead, dead, dead — as it should have been from the outset. Igartúa de la Rosa has been clogging the courts with this nonsense since (at least) 1994. There have been (at least) eight judicial decisions or actions in this matter, every single one siding against Igartúa de la Rosa's asinine claim.
Why is it so hard for some people to accept that, sometimes at least, the Constitution says what it means and means what it says?
I'm not a blind supporter of the Electoral College. And I have no problem with Puerto Ricans wanting to vote for president. But let them attain the vote the old-fashioned way: either by amending the Constitution or by what one would think is the obvious path of least resistance: simply petitioning to become a state.
Wanting to have your cake and eat it too is not "seeking to correct an historical injustice and denial of due process."
It's just whining.
His old hobby was suing — and suing, and suing, and then suing again — to try to circumvent the Constitution's plain dictate that only residents of bona fide states (and, since 1961, the District of Columbia) get to participate in the
But now the Supreme Court has denied certiorari to the last of Igartúa de la Rosa's appeals and the issue is (one would hope) dead, dead, dead — as it should have been from the outset. Igartúa de la Rosa has been clogging the courts with this nonsense since (at least) 1994. There have been (at least) eight judicial decisions or actions in this matter, every single one siding against Igartúa de la Rosa's asinine claim.
Why is it so hard for some people to accept that, sometimes at least, the Constitution says what it means and means what it says?
I'm not a blind supporter of the Electoral College. And I have no problem with Puerto Ricans wanting to vote for president. But let them attain the vote the old-fashioned way: either by amending the Constitution or by what one would think is the obvious path of least resistance: simply petitioning to become a state.
Wanting to have your cake and eat it too is not "seeking to correct an historical injustice and denial of due process."
It's just whining.
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