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...Supreme Court Justices will vote is, even in mundane times, a perilous game. Conservatives have sometimes been disappointed by Kennedy, who has voted with liberals on issues like gay rights and school prayer. And right-to-lifers once counted on O'Connor to provide a fifth vote to overturn the abortion protections of Roe v. Wade, something she has resisted...
...newspapers that I'm supposed to be enraged. Conservatives are like that, you see. Kind of touchy--unbalanced, really. When a politician we don't like--Al Gore, in this case--goes to court to try, for the first time in history, to overturn the certified result of a presidential election, and then launches a raft of novel and fallacious legal theories to muddy the clear intent of legally passed statutes, and finally enlists the aid of a politically sympathetic team of state supreme court judges to count the votes and count them again until the tally makes...
...every voter's voice was heard and the winner--whose identity was and is unknown--could rightfully receive Florida's electoral votes through certification tomorrow. Counting these undervotes. not just in Democratic counties, but across the state, was and is the correct thing to do; it seemed able to overturn the growing tide of cynicism that has swept the American public, Democrat and Republican, as every court decision jerked the Presidency in a new direction...
...Bush team wanted the Justices to overturn the Florida Supreme Court's Nov. 21 ruling. Olson, a stellar appellate lawyer who worked in Reagan's Justice Department alongside Kenneth Starr, argued that the Florida court's ruling amounted to the creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.O.P. archaeologists. The law was written about a decade after the last truly chaotic American election, the Rutherford Hayes-Samuel Tilden race of 1876, when Hayes became President after the wheeling...
...support has grown largely on a wave of anxiety over Barak's handling of the Palestinian uprising. But he won't be able to translate that support into a comeback victory without the help of the legislature, or perhaps even the court. Netanyahu needs parliament to either overturn the special law under which Barak called the election, or else to proceed quickly with the legislation to dissolve itself that was initiated two weeks ago. If parliament is dissolved, an election is required for both the top job and the legislature itself, in which Netanyahu believes he could lead the Likud...