So it has come down to this: The chief executive of the most powerful nation
in the world will be determined by nine Supreme Court Justices' interpretation of the Electoral Count Act of 1887. As I write, it is hard to tell how the Court will decide, but one thing is clear -- the injection of the Supreme Court into this process is the final absurdity in the nation's fruitless attempt to solve an essentially political conflict by legal means. There is no reason to assume that the Supreme Court will succeed where lower courts have, as yet, failed.