Word: connorism
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...there's a violation of Article II of the Constitution. At the end of the day, Tribe told members of his team that he was surprised by the prevalence of that line of questioning, which could spell doom for the Vice President. Another bad sign: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a Reagan appointee who often provides the swing vote in 5-4 cases, also scrutinized Tribe closely--and rescued a stammering Olson at one point with a softball query. Many court watchers saw her words as a sign of an emerging 5-4 majority for Bush...
...SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR APPOINTED BY Ronald Reagan (1981) A conservative with an independent streak, she has become the Court's most influential Justice. The former state senator is likely to be sympathetic to Florida legislators who say their laws have been changed. But she also prefers the Court to stay out of state matters...
...five Justices now in the "conservative" box - Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor and Kennedy - evidently agreed with Bush's claim that the undervote count was not only an unlawful conjuring by the Florida Supreme Court but was doing his candidacy "irreparable harm." More ominously for Gore, they may also agree, as Bush's application claimed, that the Florida Supreme Court decision was unconstitutional, that it conflicted with Article II - which says the legislature chooses electors - and that it violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In which case, they'll toss the whole thing out, and go back...
...SINEAD O'CONNOR, FAITH AND COURAGE: 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...
...struggle for some sort of unified voice in a case this important. The easiest way to do that would probably be to wash their hands of the case. If one end of the Court's philosophical spectrum can't win over the other, or at least the Kennedy-O'Connor middle, they may decide that any split decision - and the resultant politicization of America's highest arbiters - would be the worst outcome...