Letters to the Editor
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@ Aycharaych
[quoting Bugliosi]: Now, in the equal protection cases I've seen, the aggrieved party, the one who is being harmed and discriminated against, almost invariably brings the action. But no Florida voter I'm aware of brought any action under the equal protection clause claiming he was disfranchised because of the different standards being employed. What happened here is that Bush leaped in and tried to profit from a hypothetical wrong inflicted on someone else....
I commented extensively on this at the time (it's in Google groups archives). Dubya wasn't a Florida voter, and could hardly have standing to claim his vote had been "diluted". Not to mention, the conservatives on the Supreme Court had previously been unimpressed by 'theoretical' claims of "equal protection" violation (or incidental disparate treatment) and had demanded actual prof of invidious intent to discriminate ... that is, if you happened to be a black plaintiff.
But that's a bit OT, so after saying that, I'll shut up.
Cheers,