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...week's end, the legal endgame was focused on two sets of lawsuits proceeding on parallel tracks. The Bush campaign had pinned its hopes on a federal challenge to hand counts that now seems to have sputtered to a halt. And the Gore camp was relying on the Florida state courts to force a reluctant Katherine Harris, the secretary of state, to accept votes from hand recounts that it hoped might provide its margin of victory...
...called ballot-security program, which targeted black votes. In Florida the tricky part for Boies will be keeping the public behind the Democrats. Jonathan Schiller, his longtime colleague and partner for the past three years, says Boies has no doubt devised a strategy that anticipates appeals and parallel legal proceedings while recognizing the psychology of the situation. "People need to leave feeling upbeat about the transition," says Schiller...
...week's end, the legal endgame was focused on two sets of lawsuits proceeding on parallel tracks. The Bush campaign had pinned its hopes on a federal challenge to hand counts that now seems to have sputtered to a halt. And the Gore camp was relying on the Florida state courts to force a reluctant Katherine Harris, the secretary of state, to accept votes from hand recounts that it hoped might provide its margin of victory...
...With increasing frequency, mention is being made of the possibility that the U.S. Supreme Court will be called upon to sort out the mess. Though there are doubts that the nation's top judges will want to hear what they may consider a state matter (see below), two parallel tracks are making themselves apparent...
Consciously creating a parallel between the discussion meeting and the Constitutional Convention, Batty criticized Pryor's vision of an IOP comprised of a series of committees but no central executive student body as "something like the Articles of Confederation, a beast without a head...