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Originally posted by Not Me
Well someone needs to tell Dick Gephardt that. He vowed on the campaign trail that if he were elected president, we would override wrong Supreme Court decisions by executive order:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,90124,00.html
Seems that stupidity is bipartisan. FYI - gephardt is a U of MI law school grad. I think that makes it even worse.
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The linked article quotes Gephardt as talking about "overcoming" the Supreme Court's decision, not "overriding" it. Particularly in the civil rights context, the former word has a different meaning.
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