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Bush finally seemed to be slipping into the new role as well. With two stunning court rulings in his favor Monday--Leon County Judge N. Sanders Sauls rejecting Gore's plea for a recount, and the U.S. Supreme Court setting aside the Florida high court's earlier pro-Gore ruling--he hoped not just for victory but for honor. In his best television performance in months, on CBS, Bush went out of his way to appear leaderly, good humored and generous toward Gore. "He and I share something," Bush said. "We both put our heart and soul into the campaign...
...votes being counted by order of the state supreme court, Bush's directive about softening the rhetoric had been rendered inoperative. Tom DeLay, the resident House G.O.P. firebrand, had vowed the night before that "this judicial aggression will not stand." His operatives were in Florida, officially to observe the recount process, and House Democratic leader Dick Gephardt warned them not to "disrupt this count." But there were plenty of other disruptions...
...state supreme court's ruling was extraordinarily ambitious, imposing a remedy no one had asked for. Gore's lawyers simply wanted a recount of 14,000 disputed ballots in two Democratic counties; the state supreme court ordered a recount of undervotes in 64 of 67 counties (three had already completed recounts). Earlier in the process, such a sweeping ruling might have seemed downright Solomonic--counting the undervotes everywhere removed the built-in Gore advantage of counting just three Democratic strongholds. But after almost five weeks of wrangling, with the hunger for finality beginning to crowd out the desire for fairness...
...first one wondered if Florida's dysfunctional political-and-judicial world would manage to get it going in the first place. The state supreme court directed Judge Sauls--whose ruling they had just trashed--to oversee the recount, but Sauls, perhaps smarting from press reports about his previous battles with the high court, perhaps just not wanting to do its bidding, recused himself. A second judge, Nikki Clark, declared herself unavailable. So the job fell to Judge Lewis, the level-headed, mustachioed novelist-jurist who had disappointed the Gore team with his ruling four weeks ago backing Secretary of State...
...Florida court defied expectations last Friday and handed down one of the nerviest decisions in the annals of American law. A bitterly divided 4-3 court ordered that every Florida county tabulate or recount its undervotes. The ruling had Gore partisans extolling the noble tradition of an independent Judiciary--the one actor, in a state run by Republican Governor Jeb Bush and Republican ally Katherine Harris, free to do the right thing. But to the Bush camp, the Florida justices were just liberal power grabbers, intent on overturning a certified election result favoring the Republicans. Florida house speaker Tom Feeney...