Word: hadn
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...most amazing thing about all the events is that they all ran over," Clancy said. "People were just talking and talking. That really speaks to how important these issues are and that these hadn't yet been addressed...
Inside the chamber, the American elite assembled for the arguments that most legal scholars had predicted wouldn't come. It was quite a sight, as warring parties had to cram together in the 400-seat hall. (Court personnel said they hadn't seen Friday's frantic demand for seats since 1989, when a high-profile abortion case, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, was argued.) Senator Edward Kennedy sat uncomfortably next to Barbara Olson, wife of Bush lawyer Theodore Olson and author of Hell to Pay, a vituperative book about Kennedy's new colleague Hillary Rodham Clinton. Gore adviser Warren Christopher...
...claims. On Friday night, Gore told TIME that he was "not all that surprised" by that day's state supreme court decision rescuing him from the abyss. "I had a feeling from the start that the principle that every vote should be counted would end up prevailing." But he hadn't predicted what the U.S. Supreme Court did the next day. About the prospects for Bush's appeal, he said, "I still have that same faith...
...When the word from the Supreme Court came down, some counties hadn't even begun to separate out the undervotes. Some that had begun didn't even get the news for another hour. It was going to be a 60-odd-county kitten-herding, and the scattered reports only inspired confidence in the Gore camp and Democrats who had finally seen their dreams come true, if only for a little while. But were they coming true? Numbers had been bandied about: 58 net for Gore, 44 net for Bush in Miami-Dade. In Pinellas County, 272 ballots yielded...
...trial, Richman had called three witnesses - and been admonished once by Clark for wasting the court's precious time. And if he had an unfairness-to-Democrats trump card that could persuade Clark to throw Seminole County's 15,000 absentee-ballot babies out with the bathwater, he hadn't played...