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It thus appears now based on the signed pleadings of the defendants in the California 50th District Election contest in San Diego (the Busby/Bilbray race) that the US media overlooked one of the great political stories of the year: A power grab by the Speaker of the House seven days after the June 6 election to terminate any further election or action in San Diego County except those actions that they choose not to attack the jurisdiction of.
This power grab and premature election termination was accomplished by swearing in Brian Bilbray on June 13, only seven days after the election and weeks before the election was certified and before all votes were counted, and then subsequently arguing that nobody else (and especially the San Diego Superior Court) has any power or jurisdiction to do anything about it, based on the allegedly exclusive power of the House to judge the Qualifications of their Members under Art. I, sec. 5 of the US Constitution.
Thus, we have an incomplete invalid election. The parties to the election contest now all agree, they just get there in different ways. The motion to dismiss / argument against jurisdiction of the defendants reveals the powerplay that occurred on June 13th, with the premature swearing in.
Shades of 2000, with a selection decided in Washington DC, and the pitiful States and their citizens ordered to pipe down and "get used to it"?
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