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...issue is the Florida Supreme Court's Friday ruling ordering hand recounts of undervotes statewide. Saturday, SCOTUS stayed that recount by a vote of 5-4, and collected briefs from both sides on Sunday afternoon in preparation for Monday's hearing...
...likely define his term as Chief Justice. The political considerations are staggering; no Court has ever played such an active role in determining the presidency before, so Rehnquist in particular may exercise extra caution before voting to end Gore's contest without the safeguard of at least a partial recount...
...along political lines; six of the bench's nine justices (Scalia, Thomas, Ginsburg, Souter, Stevens and Breyer) are solidly committed to ideological positions they are considered extremely unlikely to abandon. That divide was never more clear than on Saturday, when the Court voted 5-4 to stay the Democrats' recount effort in Florida...
...this is good news for the Gore team, since such a divide leaves only Justices Scalia and Thomas to defend the conservative line; Justices Souter, Ginsburg, Breyer and Stevens would need only one of the wavering votes to reverse the stay on the Florida recount...
...Justice Souter also came down particularly hard on Olson and may have given the attorney a bit of a scare. He and Justice Breyer grilled the Bush lawyer as to what standard might be acceptable "in the hypothetical situation that a recount does recommence." Souter pointed out that without an objective standard, some voters might be disenfranchised, which would violate the "equal protection" clause of the Constitution. "Don't we need a standard," the Justice demanded? Olson agreed that should the high court remand the case to the Florida Circuit Courts and Secretary of State Katherine Harris, he would accept...