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...suggests that a majority of the court, while not deciding the issues presented, believe that the petitioner has a substantial probability of success." That would be George W. Bush. For Gore to prevail, one of two swing votes among the nine Justices--either Anthony Kennedy or Sandra Day O'Connor--would have to peel from the majority that granted the stay, deciding that the Florida Supreme Court had not changed the rules after the election or otherwise violated the Constitution, which confers power over elections to the legislatures. It could happen. If it doesn't, Gore is out of options...
...will actually decide to do that. Unlike the high court's first ruling in the case, which was carefully if precariously unanimous, the latest one broke down in just the ideological way everyone had hoped to avoid. The five conservatives--Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justices Sandra Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas--voted to issue the stay. The four liberals--Justices John Paul Stevens, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and David Souter--voted to let the counts...
...Court" believes Bush has "a substantial probability of success." But it may be significant that, unlike the four-person dissent, Scalia's concurrence was signed by him alone. The Democrats are already talking about peeling away a moderate member of the conservative bloc--Kennedy or possibly O'Connor. Until a ruling comes down, those two Justices will be two of the most powerful people on the planet...
...over may be celebrating too soon. Predicting how Supreme Court Justices will vote is, even in mundane times, a perilous game. Conservatives have sometimes been disappointed by Kennedy, who has voted with liberals on issues like gay rights and school prayer. And right-to-lifers once counted on O'Connor to provide a fifth vote to overturn the abortion protections of Roe v. Wade, something she has resisted...
...SINEAD O'CONNOR Faith and Courage (Atlantic). This time around, the defiant Irish singer delivers not a sermon of fire but a psalm of forgiveness. Her pop songs bear weighty spiritual messages about loving one's self, but they carry themselves lightly, as if lifted by seraphim's wings...