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...some court watchers think that may not have been enough. When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling vacating the Florida Supreme Court's first decision, it directed the Florida justices to provide a clearer explanation for their reasoning. At the time it issued its ruling ordering the recounts, the Florida court still had not attended to that homework assignment from on high. It can be argued that the court addressed it implicitly in its new decision, which avoided making the same mistake, or that the first ruling has been overtaken by events. Still, the U.S. Supreme Court...
...think we’re the same, but we’re not.” Van Sant follows suit, photographing a faculty-student function through a thick, sickly pale green cloud; his intent to demonize the people within it could not be made clearer if he equipped them all with red horns and pitchforks...
...intent of the voter," which the Florida legislature has established as its primary standard for counting votes? Justice Ginsburg wanted to know how Olson, who has argued that the Florida Supreme Court has consistently intruded on the jurisdiction of the state legislature during this contest, would react to new, clearer standards. "You've dismissed 'intent of the voter' as too vague a standard," she said. "But at least that came from the legislature. And if something were added to that, wouldn't you be arguing more vociferously against changing something from the all-powerful legislature...
...recount should continue, Justices Breyer and Souter seemed particularly interested in establishing a standard both parties could accept, while O'Connor sounded annoyed that the dilemma existed in the first place. "Why isn't the standard what the voter are instructed?" she demanded. "The instructions couldn't be clearer, for goodness' sake...
...morning, it became clearer to students that they would not be arrested...