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...enough votes to move ahead of Bush for the first time. Then the U.S. Supreme Court joined the battle. In another acrimonious split decision - this one 5 to 4 - the Justices halted the recount and scheduled oral arguments for Monday on George W. Bush's claim that the manual counts are unconstitutional and could do "irreparable harm" to his candidacy. Al Gore's top lawyer, David Boies, was eating lunch with another hotshot lawyer, Stephen Zack, when the news came over the television. Boise threw up his hands and cried, "What possible irreparable harm could they be talking about...
...Bush team now suspects it has finally sussed out the high court's stand on these manual counts and on the Florida high court that set them in motion by its own split decision Friday. And they figure they've got their five votes...
...Bush team, suddenly back on the high ground, James Baker was out within an hour to deliver some cautious analysis. "We are pleased by the decision of the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the mandate of the Florida Supreme Court... This means that the partial manual system created yesterday by the FSC will not now proceed." As for why, Baker went on to quote the suddenly wise minority that had tried to save his candidate from the hand counts Friday, and tossed in some "changing the rules in the middle of the game" shots at the ruling Florida four...
...Perhaps this historic election deserved nothing less. The Florida Supreme Court, by an all-too-appropriate 4-3 vote, has thrown open Pandora's Boxes all across the state of Florida by ordering manual recounts of undervotes "in all counties that have not already undergone them...
...Florida legislature-derived standard for those counts - where the "intent of the voter" is evident - that is not only subjective but more stringent than the all-vote manual counts in Volusia and Broward counties that cut George W. Bush's lead in half. It has appointed the very judge it rebuffed "in part" with Friday's ruling - N. Sanders Sauls - to do the very job he couldn't bring himself to do. (Sauls immediately recused himself...