Word: equalized
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...courts have certainly been historic before: ordering public schools to admit blacks in the 1950s and helping oust President Richard M. Nixon by ordering him to turn over the Watergate tapes in the 1970s. But those decisions were handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, steeped in prestige and equal in the Constitutional scheme to the President or Congress. The Florida court is made of seven people even most Floridians couldn't have picked out of a lineup two weeks...
...Florida Supreme Court tried to build in protections against the Bush campaign's federal attack. A key Republican claim has been that the recounts violate the 14th Amendment's equal-protection guarantee because they were occurring in some counties and not in others. The effect, the Republicans said, was to give extra voting rights to citizens in counties that have recounts. The justices' response was, once again, shrewd: order undervotes counted in all counties, and no one is legally disadvantaged...
...much younger. If Buckingham thought linearly, she would lose what makes her a tremendously talented student of video. Somehow, playing with digital video tools, Buckingham cuts and pastes, extends and distorts time. She retells stories the way she understands them, with images of the past and present rendered with equal importance...
...Gore had been in the lead, [William] Rehnquist, [Antonin] Scalia and [Clarence] Thomas would have come up on the other side of the equal protection argument," he said...
...court's majority opinion held that the equal protection standard required by the 14th Amendment was violated by the varying recount procedures and ballot-counting standards...