Word: partisanship
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...Crimson Staff displayed a truly remarkable level of partisanship in blasting the U. S. Supreme Court's well-reasoned decision to hear Texas Gov. George W. Bush's appeal of the Florida Supreme Court's restructuring of the Florida Election Code (Editorial, Dec. 11). The decision handed down by the Florida Court created a multitude of practical and constitutional problems. In a scathing dissent, Florida Supreme Court Chief Justice Charles Wells (a Democratic appointee) concluded that the decision has, "no foundation in the law of Florida as it existed...
...Feeney, like the rest of the country, wouldn't have minded if the U.S. Supreme Court had swooped down from Washington to save him from this particular spot in the history of partisanship. But the bell never rang, and Feeney's House stayed right on schedule...
...takes office, and Jan. 20, when the president is inaugurated. Kerry noted that the Democrats decided to act like "statespeople." There's a word that hasn't been needed in the past month. Webster's Dictionary defines "statesman" in part as "one who exercises leadership wisely and without narrow partisanship in the general interest." Could there possibly be any better to term to describe how the two presidential aspirants have not acted...
...central contradiction alone--elevating recounts in Democratic counties to high principle while ignoring recounts in the rest of the state--renders the court's ruling a travesty. A welcome travesty, however. Because this time the lawless lawmaking was made in the full glare of publicity and with such obvious partisanship. (All seven judges are Democratic appointees; the selection to the court of five of them was strongly influenced by Dexter Douglass, a Gore lawyer who addressed the court during the dramatic oral argument.) And because its very outrageousness--rewriting the rules of a presidential election after the election--dramatizes...
...chance before Dec. 12 (now a week away) to grab the spotlight's harsh glare, and possibly a place in the partisanship Hall of Fame. Republicans in favor of moving say the Constitution - "each state shall appoint, in such a manner as the legislature thereof directs, a slate of electors" - and federal law backs them up. They say Gore's backup plan is for no slate of Florida electors to go to Washington...