Word: klock
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...Klock, attorney for Katherine Harris, took the podium for about 10 minutes, echoing Olson's arguments and also managing to call two Justices by the wrong names...
...Agree with his judicial philosophy or not, for instance, but Antonin Scalia's dripping sarcasm alone could fuel a small cable channel's ratings. Under questioning, Florida secretary of state lawyer Joseph Klock began, "We have not addressed the federal issues, because -" Scalia cut him off: "Well, this is a federal court!" To Laurence Tribe, on the question of whether the Florida legislature might have "invited" the state supreme court's intervention, Scalia - alluding to legislature's disdain for court action, sneered, "Maybe your experience of the legislative branch is different from mine...
...first line to draw was between "protest" and "contest." Joseph Klock, for Harris, argued that the Gore team was "trying to conduct a contest proceeding before there is a certification." Meaning that if Democrats have evidence that the election result Harris wants to certify is incorrect, let her certify it - and then the law gives them from the first certification (a week after the election) until the end of the world...