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...DAVID SOUTER APPOINTED BY George Bush (1990) Though chosen by Bush in the hope of building a stable conservative majority on the Court, Souter has voted with the liberals on most important issues. But he can be a cautious jurist, one who is reluctant to use the power of the courts to embarrass legislatures...
...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...
...White House staffers, after all, every time an insider quits and writes an overremunerated memoir. But the Court, now there's an intriguing world. The sex-scandal-haunted black conservative! The mysterious, John Cage-like nebbish who infuriates his Republican sponsors by going liberal on them! The plucky woman jurist coming back from cancer! Make 'em all 40 years younger and tighten up those robes and you've got ratings gold. POTUS, make room for SCOTUS...
...that response to its response. Is either side making any significant concessions? Nope. Will an extra week of crossfire do anything to change the judge's apparent desire to cleave the company? Nope. But like a long black robe, the delay may go some way toward covering a certain jurist's rear...
BORN. To TONY, 47, and CHERIE BLAIR, 45, Prime Minister and jurist, a boy, their fourth child and the first baby born to a serving British P.M. in 152 years; in London. The baby will be named...