Word: antonine
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...Gore had been in the lead, [William] Rehnquist, [Antonin] Scalia and [Clarence] Thomas would have come up on the other side of the equal protection argument," he said...
...There will be boos when Rehnquist happily resigns during a Bush presidency. There will be louder boos when Bush makes Antonin Scalia Chief Justice. But 100 years from now, when the Democrats and Republicans have switched places again (the party of Lincoln lost the Florida black vote this year by something like a 9-to-1 margin) and some new election-by-brain-implant comes under dispute, it might seem perfectly natural to let politicians do the refereeing when the judges and lawyers botch the job. Al Gore and the Democrats may feel angry and cheated by the political/philosophical divisions...
...Supreme Court or the U.S. Congress, who are charged by the Constitution to resolve difficulties in federal elections. Today's hearing will be the opportunity for both sides to argue their case about what is a vote and when it should be counted, and we can hope that Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion, as voiced in his comments Saturday, do not reflect the opinion of all, or even 5, of the justices...
...Tribe didn't have an easy time of it either, particularly when Justice Antonin Scalia, a Reagan appointee and the intellectual leader of the court's conservative wing, bustled in with an argument based on a less developed part of Bush's brief--that the Florida court didn't rely solely on statutes of the Florida legislature when it fashioned its solution to the case but relied more on the state constitution and the expansive notion of having every vote count. If that's true, then there's a violation of Article II of the Constitution...
...Remember, he not just ambitious, he's the party fund-raiser. And he figures that if Antonin Scalia is the one to drive the stake through Al Gore's heart, the martyr bucks will roll in like never before. And the Republican party might have another polarizing face it would rather do without...