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Barbara Perry, professor of government at Virginia's Sweet Briar College and a constitutional law and Supreme Court expert, was among the privileged few to view these historic Supreme Court proceedings firsthand. Here are her thoughts immediately following the conclusion of Friday's oral arguments...
...truly electric. There's no other way to describe the atmosphere in the court. I've been in there many times before, but I've never seen oral arguments like this before. The fact that it brought together such an interesting composite of people - Orrin Hatch and Ted Kennedy sitting together, all the Gore children. And I happened to sit with Judge Burton, the head of the Palm Beach canvassing board. He's a delightful person...
...possible, for example, says Barbara Perry, professor of law at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, that the Court could hear the oral arguments Friday morning, confer Friday afternoon and decide to dismiss the case as "improvidentially granted." This neat bit of 19th-century verbiage simply means the Court has decided, for whatever reason, that it is not interested in ruling on the case. If this happens, the case bounces back to the previous court (the 11th district circuit court in Atlanta). And since those judges have already heard the case (and ruled against Bush), unless there is a new twist...
Sarah Boyer of the Cambridge Historical Commission has spoken to Jones on several occasions for research into the history of Cambridge politics as well as for the Commission's Central Square oral history project...
...oral arguments came after a roller-coaster weekend for both camps: After the Florida Supreme Court threw the ailing Gore team a lifeline Friday afternoon, granting their request for recounts of undervotes, Gore thought he had a pretty good chance. Now his fate lies in the hands of the nine U.S. Supreme Court Justices who've already ruled against his cause once before. Bush is reportedly confident SCOTUS will hold firm in their support of his case...