On September 30, David Gill, the independent candidate for U.S. House in the 13th Illinois district, asked U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy to restore him to the ballot. Gill v Scholz, 16A309. Gill had earlier asked Justice Elena Kagan to put him on the ballot, but she had refused and had not even submitted his request to the other members of the Supreme Court.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Justice Anthony Kennedy? He’s the one who wrote this a little under 16 years ago: “None are more conscious of the vital limits on judicial authority than are the Members of this Court, and none stand more in admiration of the Constitution’s design to leave the selection of the President to the people, through their legislatures, and to the political sphere.” That was from Bush v. Gore, the worst-ever decision of the Supreme Court. (Yes, I know the official opinion of the Court was “Per Curiam,” but Prof. Alan Dershowitz has reported that he has a reliable inside source in the Supreme Court, and the source says it was Kennedy who actually wrote the Bush v. Gore opinion. See “Supreme Injustice; How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000,” by Dershowitz, published in 2001.)
I pity David Gill for needing to rely on the one member of the Court whom I consider to be the worst and least trust-worthy of the current Justices.