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However politically motivated it may or may not be, the majority decision in Bush v. Gore, on its face, is a ringing affirmation of equal protection. Election lawyers should be able to use it to challenge all disparities in voting machines and Election Day procedures from here on. For instance, Florida's black voters--whose ballots were thrown out at a far higher rate than whites--could use it as the basis for a challenge to Florida's election practices. "This Supreme Court wasn't intending to create the broadest new voting right since one person, one vote," says University...
...Gore, in a few throwaway lines, cautioned that "our consideration is limited to the present circumstances." In other words, unless you are a presidential candidate whose opponent has persuaded a court to order a statewide recount without uniform standards, this case might not apply to you at all. The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment was enacted to give equal status to newly freed black slaves. Some civil rights advocates have already pointed out the irony that the conservative Justices, long reluctant to apply the law's protections to minorities, were eager to cite its protections when the victim...
...belief that politicians are liars is so widely cherished that it is almost part of America's civic religion, along with that stuff about being created equal. But outright whoppers by politicians are fairly rare. Not every year produces a classic like President Clinton's "I did not have sexual relations with that woman." The lie most discussed in 2000 was Al Gore's alleged claim that he invented the Internet, which is an exaggeration of what he really said and is hardly a central issue anyway...
...settlement of a case involving price fixing in the vitamin market, Boies, Schiller stands to collect a fee of $40 million; from this year's auction-house case, the firm could take in $25 million. And as you might imagine, all partners at Boies' firm are not created equal...
...while scientific diplomacy required that Venter and Collins get equal recognition for this epochal achievement, insiders knew that, to paraphrase George Orwell, one man was more equal than the other. The genome would certainly have been sequenced if Craig Venter had never been born. But if he hadn't decided to attack the problem with a radical approach, using the most sophisticated computer technology available, and to drive the effort with the full force of his rebellious personality, it would have taken years longer to complete. By forcing Collins and his colleagues to double and redouble the pace of their...