Word: harborers
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...Late at night on December 12, just hours before the 124-year-old safe harbor dried up, this democracy looked to have gotten the president half of it wanted and the Supreme Court all of it deserved. The slenderest conservative majority of five declared the Florida game over, with a hard Scalia core shouting additional insults at the local referee. And the four liberals mourned that the fight for lost votes and elusive truth was called off cynically, with a few ticks still left on the clock...
...This was Felix Frankfurter's "political thicket," of course, and Chief Justice Rehnquist, with the majority quill, will no doubt be accused of creating his own "safe harbor" for retirement. He got rid of this mess just the way Bush wanted him to, shrugging his shoulders and declaring that it wasn't going to get any better from here. He made life easy for the half-cocked Florida Republicans, patting them on the back and easing them back into their seats. He also came to the very reasonable conclusion that Florida's election apparatus would not bear...
...ought to admit Red China to the United Nations? Did Oswald act alone? Why do you think Nixon didn't burn the tapes? Was Ronald Reagan a moron or a visionary? Do earth tones really signify the Alpha male? Why, exactly? Did Roosevelt know in advance about Pearl Harbor? You think those Sacco and Vanzetti guys got what they deserved? Did John F. Kennedy in the White House take his orders directly from the Pope of Rome? Would you say that Bill Clinton's roadless lands initiative unwisely ignores foresters' concerns about fuel load buildup and other issues of sound...
...lawyers finally parted company. The man who wouldn't think about quitting ceased Tuesday night to think about litigating. He went to bed having consulted only Tipper, and let what little post-SCOTUS suspense there was percolate until morning. If you wanted closure when midnight struck and the "safe harbor" Rehnquist chose was a dry bed, it was possible to think the lowest of Gore. Would he call the U.S. Supreme Court "no controlling legal authority," and make one last...
...Safe Harbor? Who Needs It? By depending heavily on a questionable interpretation of the federal "safe harbor" rule - the basis for the December 12 and 18 deadlines we've heard so much about - the majority Justices (Rehnquist, Kennedy, O'Connor, Scalia and Thomas) took a risky route to their ruling...