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...slenderest conservative majority of five declared the Florida game over, with a hard Scalia core shouting additional insults at the local referee. And the four liberals mourned that the fight for lost votes and elusive truth was called off cynically, with a few ticks still left on the clock...
...Gore. The decision has already come under fire from liberals for being thinly disguised interventionism, and they have a point. But what Rehnquist did can in fact be thought of as exquisitely federalist. He left it up to Florida. But he let the legislature, not the court, control the clock...
...Senate from following through on the House and making Florida's the first state legislature in history to name its own electors. The Supremes, from their lofty perch, may not be particularly rushed by that prospect, but if they choose they have until Wednesday afternoon to stop the clock. Feeney, for one, sounded ready to play along with the nation's biggest band...
...statewide tally? Gore needs a victory here--and fast. This case and all appeals must be resolved by Dec. 12, or he loses. Bush is delaying by raising peripheral questions, calling scads of witnesses and asking for 1.1 million ballots to be counted. Can he run out the clock...
...first, stop the clock...