South Carolina supreme court: High school senior beats Gov. Mark Sanford

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Sanford will not appeal, since he can now blame taking the money on other people while still looking pure and principled to the remaining GOP voters in South Carolina.

i don't think i've ever seen anyone actually get schooled before.

In case you were wondering, this is decision is quite probably the smartest thing to come out of this state. Well, this and Stephen Colbert.

Hot fuck in a handbasket, that's really cool. I didn't know he'd been sued to take the money!

EDIT: Looks like we also need Subrosa to explain this "writ of mandamus" too. Sounds exotic.

It's a court forcing another government officer to do something that they are legally obligated to do. It's not exactly exotic, but not exactly common either.

Fun fact! A writ of mandamus is what Marbury was applying for against Madison in the case of Marbury v. Madison, that favorite case of Con Law students everywhere.

Mmmmmmm...Marbury v. Madison.

Except in the case of Marbury the Supreme Court smacked the writ of mandamus down after they declared the statute he based his claim on unconstituional.

Which started the notion that the duty of the Supreme Court was to judge constitutionality. This was a issue Jefferson was torn between since he did technically win the case but he was also unhappy that the Court gave its self a duty that was not expressed in the Constitution.

Sort of. To be clear: The Supreme Court did not "smack the writ of mandamus down". The Supreme Court declared the underlying law that Marbury was trying to enforce unconstitutional. The writ ITSELF is a procedural thing that is and has been used often before and since.

Note: This did not "start" the notion that the Supreme Court was to judge constitutionality, it established judicial review as fact. The concept of judicial review was not entirely novel and had been contemplated at the founding.

True, it was just the first case that made it official.

Proof that there are some smart, educated people in SC, despite the efforts of out state's government.

Sanford loses to a high school senior and and disappears into the woods to pout!

And he would have gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for that meddling kid and her law dogs.

Who is allowed to disappear for days and not get fired?

Dick Cheney?

Oh, but he was actually banging some lady in Argentina! You stand by those principles, Mark. Wee!

REPUBLICAN FAMILY VALUES POWER ACTIVATE!! GO!

God is in self, and self is in self so self. Wha?

Is "self" the new "station"?

lol fox news:



lol

my eyes went all round when i read about the press conference.

i can't even belieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeve this guy. what a joke.

From this article, one of the best sentences I've read in a long time:

Following this story as it unfolded was probably the best time I've had at work in a while. The entire office erupted in laughter at his stuttered admission.