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...outspoken liberal, Tribe has called for strict Senate scrutiny of judical nominees, and he played a prominent role in defeating conservative jurist Robert H. Bork's bid to the Supreme Court during the Reagan administration...
Knowing that support for the death penalty would be an issue in the race, Ashcroft portrayed White, a talented and well-respected jurist, as a pro-criminal activist intent on undermining the capital punishment system. This occurred despite White's endorsement by the Missouri Fraternal Order of Police, despite White's votes to uphold most death sentences that came before his court, despite the decisions by Ashcroft appointees to join White in many of his decisions reversing a death sentence, and despite Ashcroft's complete lack of interest in White's death-penalty views during the confirmation hearing...
...oversee the recount, but Sauls, perhaps smarting from press reports about his previous battles with the high court, perhaps just not wanting to do its bidding, recused himself. A second judge, Nikki Clark, declared herself unavailable. So the job fell to Judge Lewis, the level-headed, mustachioed novelist-jurist who had disappointed the Gore team with his ruling four weeks ago backing Secretary of State Katherine Harris. On Friday night, when Lewis held a preliminary hearing to set a timetable for the recount, Bush lawyer Phil Beck staged a remarkable filibuster, a meandering, hourlong statement that seemed designed to delay...
...plainspoken, sharp-witted man who uses his folksiness as a shield, Sauls, 59, may prove to be the most important jurist in the legal feud over the presidency. On Saturday he listened to nine hours of argument and testimony. Bush lawyers cross-examined Gore's only two witnesses for what seemed an eternity. The slow-moving Republicans then presented two of their 20 witnesses before Sauls recessed for the day. He will rule whether Gore would have won Florida's coveted electoral votes if 14,000 undervoted ballots had been properly counted by hand. But the thought of being...
...STEPHEN BREYER APPOINTED BY Bill Clinton (1994) A cautious jurist who usually votes with court liberals - except on criminal cases - Breyer is a pragmatist. In the first round of oral arguments in this case, he wanted to know the real consequences that would flow if the Court decided one way or another...