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...RUTH BADER GINSBURG APPOINTED BY Bill Clinton (1993) She usually votes with the liberals, but Ginsburg has been restrained in using Court power to second-guess legislatures. During the first round of arguments in this case, however, she also defended the Florida court's power to interpret the word of the state legislature...
...come from the 25 punch-card counties. Punch-card machines are less reliable than the pricier voting technology used in more Republican areas. Brevard County, for instance, which went 53 percent to 45 percent for Bush, uses optical scanners. "There are no dimples, crimples, pimples or anything else to interpret," says election supervisor Fred Galey. That's good for him but - if the hand count resumes - bad for Bush, since Brevard's 277 undervoted ballots probably contain few votes. By contrast, Pinellas County's 4,226 undervoted punch-card ballots could contain hundreds of votes, and Gore won Pinellas. Across...
...would also cost $40,000 a day, be legally suspect and potentially disastrous politically. Federal law says the legislature can declare its own winner if the choice of the voters is not obvious "on the day prescribed by law." Many electoral experts interpret this to mean the state doesn't have the right to step in until Dec. 12, the deadline for Florida to choose its electors. If Feeney wants to intervene before then, he would have to argue that "the day prescribed by law" has already passed...
...conservative judicial saint Robert Bork who once said that the morality of the law is framed by the legislators who make it, not the judges who interpret it. But what is the morality of Florida legislators who are rushing to enact a law so that the brother of their governor wins their state regardless of who really won the vote...
...judicial one. Nowhere has that been truer than in Florida over the past two weeks. Going into the election, it looked like the presidency would be determined by the candidates' positions on issues such as prescription drugs and tax cuts. Now it seems likely to turn on how courts interpret obscure state election laws and arcane questions of administrative discretion...