Word: argumentative
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...appeal of court decisions that went against them in the Florida high court and the Atlanta federal court, Bush's legal team are making a two-track argument. First, they are claiming that selective hand recounts are unconstitutional on fairness grounds. Second - and this is the shiny new legal bauble - that the Florida Supreme Court overstepped its judicial bounds by doing the Florida legislature...
...Scenario Two:Gore wins the Florida tally including the "dimpled chad" vote, and Bush contests the outcome in court, claiming there was no "reasonable standard" for the vote count. The governor may have grounds for this argument, since one county views the pregnant chads as votes, while the others are setting aside dimpled ballots for review. If the Bush team can come up with a constitutional claim in their case, they could take their argument to federal court - even the U.S. Supreme Court, again assuming the Justices are interested in hearing the case, which, because it is a state matter...
...force, and the British are obviously very close to the U.S. Germany is the biggest force provider, followed by France and Britain. There's some opposition in Britain from Conservative party 'Euroskeptics' who see this as another erosion of British sovereignty, but there are very few grounds for this argument since the force is, like NATO, comprised of entirely separate national contingents which retain their own command structures...
...course Harris would use that discretion of hers to include a manual recount to be included in the total. But in the absence of anything that compelling, it was up to her. (This one appeared not to sit well with Justice Peggy Quince, who seemed to grasp the Democratic argument that a hanging-chad ballot could pass through the machine unread without it really being "machine error" - but was still a vote deserving of tabulation...
...them in on time - occasionally tripped them up with seven judges who have been at least perusing the papers. (Justice Barbara Pariente, almost absurdly, even tried to nail Bush heavy-lifter Michael Carvin on Bush's Texas hand-count law.) At one point, in the middle of his "contest" argument, Carvin had to say whether the current hand counts would proceed beyond a Harris certification. "No" was not the answer this court was looking...