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...Yale, though, was the way those opposed to a union expressed their disagreement. The negative environment I described above did not need to accompany the union drive; it stemmed from attempts to shut down the union, not from attempts to organize it. Intimidation and coercion, not lux et veritas, seemed to be the university's motto...
...ET on Day 36, Al Gore is going to try to live up to our rosiest expectations of him, and bow out like a good politician, not a good lawyer...
...machine) and not "overvotes" (those infamous double-punched Palm Beach ballots, among others), thus violating the Equal Protection clause guaranteeing the uniform treatment of all votes cast in an election. And let's not forget that the standards for recounting differed from county to county. Furthermore, Rehnquist et al. opined, any constitutional recount would require a drastic overhaul of existing standards - not to mention a time frame allowing for judicial review and legal challenges. Such "serious work" could never be undertaken and completed before the cutoff date for elector selection, the Court added, because, hey, what do you know? That...
...Another concern for Rehnquist et al. is the time. Sure it's late. And no wonder the Florida Supreme Court still hasn't bothered to explain to SCOTUS its first crack at this thing - it was a sloppy activist compromise that only served to waste three weeks of national time. The high court of which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounded so enamored Monday could have done the legally simpler thing on Nov. 17: Allow Katherine Harris her first certification and allow Gore his de novo contest on Nov. 18. And give Florida's 67 canvassing boards three weeks instead...
...generally uneasy about passing down what could be perceived as a personal verdict - in which one court takes another to task for essentially misunderstanding the law. But that's just what the Gore team hopes the Florida high court will do, and in briefs presented Wednesday, David Boies et al. have outlined their logic: Because Judge Sauls based his ruling on cases from 1974 and 1982 - precedents that were overwritten by another case less than a year ago, in a decision easing the prerequisites for a recount - his decision should be rejected...