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A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.

This is what happens, when, for the first time in modern history, a candidate resorts to lawsuits to try to overturn the outcome of an election for president.

The court makes an amazing amount of decisions that ought to be made by the people.

They rushed to move it forward, uh, and then a lawsuit was filed and we spent many months litigating, rather than trying to come up with legislation and move forward on that front.

They know, the courts know, the people know that they have no way of changing the results as it affects them.

When you have incidences like the Trayvon Martin verdict, the erosion of certain fundamental rights like voting, it just reminds us that we're always one Supreme Court justice vote away from losing the progress that has been made.

I think that the legitimacy of the court would be undermined in any case if the court made a decision based on its perception of public opinion.

It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

Well, just as the Supreme Court follows the election returns, you can bet that the bureaucracy does as well.

In very rare circumstances, the executive branch might choose to ignore a court decision.