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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...
Professor of Government Michael J. Sandel said he does not believe the U.S. Supreme Court should have reversed the Florida Supreme Court's decision to order a statewide manual recount...
They said the Florida court's order failed to include over-votes in the manual recount; that all ballots were recounted in some but not all counties; and that there is an "absence of a uniform, specific standard to guide the recounts...
...Goodheart did not write a thesis, but in the Independent he offered a manual for thesis writers that urged them to use style so spectacular that it would "make substance superfluous." He offers a series of cut-and-paste lines that writers could insert into their theses: music writers might describe the "impetuously mercurial hemlola of the percussively insistent ostinato...
Justices grilled lawyers from both sides during the intense, 90-minute proceedings yesterday, questioning the court's jurisdiction over the case and asking about the differing standards used in the manual recounts ordered on Friday...