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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...
...continues this week on several fronts. The military ballots: get them counted with a little generosity, and get the public hopping mad if they're not. They'll take the constitutional fairness of selective recounts to other, machine-counted voters back to the 11th Circuit Court in Atlanta, and higher if they have to. And they'll make the case - to the people in the next five days, to the courts afterward - that a voter without sufficient voting "intent" to poke a hole, any hole at all, in a piece of cardboard didn't intend to poke a hole...
Fortunately for the Crimson defense, there are no clear snipers on the Big Red squad. Denis Ladouceur and Matt McRae, a fifth-round draft pick of the Atlanta Thrashers, will be expected to step...
...evening, though, there was nothing for the Bush camp to say that was worth shuttling the candidate up from the ranch. Just after 7 p.m., James Baker could only remind reporters that the 11th Circuit Court had invited them back to Atlanta to talk hand counts when Florida was finished with them, and the Supreme Court had merely made a holding action. "We remain confident," he said, that the courts would eventually fall in behind Harris...
...Atlanta federal appeals court rules against Bush, there's only one place to go if you want to take it further - onto the docket of Rehnquist et al. "Theoretically, to appeal a federal appeals court decision, you go directly to the U.S. Supreme Court," says Richard Scher, professor of political science at the University of Florida...