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...Because it is evident that any recount seeking to meet the December 12 date will be unconstitutional...we reverse the judgment of the Supreme Court of Florida ordering a recount to proceed," the justices added...
Goard, a Republican described as a stickler for the rules, said she didn't have enough workers to fill in missing ID numbers, as election officials in other counties were doing. But in a questionable display of judgment, she let two G.O.P. workers spend 10 days in her office writing in the numbers on some 2,000 forms. "All I did was provide these people with a chair in my outer office," Goard has said. "I would have allowed the Democrats to do the same thing." But the Democratic form didn't have the same flaw. And once the applications...
...legislative branches to do whatever they want. After all, this is a democracy, and an election - who better to decide this dispute than elected officials? If they do wrong, let the people fire them in 2002 or 2004. (And if the high court does wrong, let a political judgment be remembered as well. The people can change this Court too if it wants, if only by attrition...
...Boies was clear about what the Gore argument will be on Monday. "There is no federal question here," he said. "This is a matter of state law. No federal court has stepped in to change the result of a national election over the judgment of local election officials...
...During the course of her trial Judge Clark had repeatedly questioned whether that remedy was appropriate, but she had seemed willing to be convinced, and had repeatedly denied the Bush team's attempts to dismiss the case or boil it down to a "summary judgment" on the legal issues. Then at 12:30, the expected rulings were delayed until 2:15 - to a groan from the assemblage of reporters - because "one of the judges, I'm not going to say which one," said court spokesman Doug Smith, "needs more time to consider her ruling." Laughs...