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...free, of course, to take any side of a given case and are not restricted in what they say on behalf of today's client by what they may have said on behalf of yesterday's. In recent years, these necessary lawyerly hypocrisies have leached out of the courtroom as lawyers have taken on broader roles and big legal cases have become multifront battlefields. The most important battlefield is often the courthouse steps...
...does Rehnquist do it? There are many answers. One, often overlooked, is paramount. Rehnquist has been relentless in resisting the vanity and the flattery of television in the courtroom...
...network that pays you to argue with Greta Van Susteren in a fake courtroom on "Burden of Proof" is not paying you to be responsible. They're paying you for answers, now: If the answers are correct, that's gravy, but if you throw in a few ass-covering caveats, nobody'll remember in the morning. He finally came up with the general impression that the case was being overturned and sent back to Florida, where recounts might or might not resume, but - that classic hedge of Postelection 2000 - "this isn't over...
...week ago, Leon County circuit court judge N. Sanders Sauls was going about his business, hearing domestic-violence cases in nearby Wakulla County, when a computer randomly assigned him a colossal headache: the presidential-election contest that has since brought the eyes of the world into Sauls' courtroom. When reporters started scrambling to profile him, the judge didn't even have a resume to give them. Instead, he handed out a list of friends who could vouch for him. Among his hunting buddies: Dexter Douglass, the courtly Floridian who is one of Gore's lead lawyers. Douglass says he gets...
...Once again, the Justices seemed unsure as to what, exactly, a recount order would mean. What standards would be used? Trying to convert a skeptical courtroom to his point of view, Boies pointed out there is already a standard established by the Florida legislature, and that standard should be used. "But what does that standard mean?" persisted the questions...