Professor Raskin was co-counsel in the case he writes about below, Alexander v. Daley . That to secure these Rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the Consent of Governed. Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances, for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities. But just weeks earlier the Court took a pass on another voting rights case, Alexander v. Daley , a lawsuit on behalf of 572,059 residents of the District of Columbia who, though they pay federal taxes and have all the obligations of citizenship, are denied the right to have voting representation in Congress. It's a good thing we have the Supreme Court to sort them out.
Truth is irreparable harm.
Pregnant chads have an Equal Protection right to be treated equally across county lines. The remedy for potential unequal treatment of pregnant-chad ballots is complete disenfranchisement of everyone who cast one. Supreme Court decisions about voting rights have no value as legal precedent, so no one should get any big ideas about using the Fourteenth Amendment's Equal Protection clause to get the right to vote. This ticket in Bush v. Gore is good for a one-way ride only. A mere citizen might wonder about the alacrity of the Court's decision to halt presidential vote counting on a Saturday night and schedule oral argument in for the case two days later.