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Meanwhile, he touched all the Republican bases but didn't slide in hard. He occasionally took part in meetings of the Federalist Society, an influential conservative legal organization based in Washington, but never got around to joining. He helped advise Governor Jeb Bush during the 2000 Florida recount but never went on TV. "Most people get places in this city with political connections, financial connections or by persistent and unstopping self-promotion," says Lazarus. "But that's not John." Even his wife's brand of political activism came with a group heterogeneously called Feminists for Life...
...hardly shocking that Democrats wince at the mention of Katherine Harris, the former Florida secretary of state who they believe unfairly favored President George W. Bush in the recount of the 2000 election. But since Harris announced her bid for the Senate in 2006, the people doing the most recoiling are the mightiest of Republicans: the Bush family. Instead of supporting her campaign, top Republican officials have been trying to kill it, first by begging retired General Tommy Franks to enter the race and--after he turned them down--courting someone with almost zero name recognition, Florida house speaker Allan...
...side of the plaintiff in Tennessee v. Lane, a 2004 decision upholding part of the Americans with Disabilities Act and requiring courtrooms to be accessible to those with physical disabilities. And most famously, she voted in 2000 to step into Florida's disputed presidential balloting and stop the recount, giving the election to George W. Bush. But she also wrote a scathing dissent in this term's medical-marijuana case, in which a majority of the Justices said that federal antidrug laws trump state efforts to let doctors prescribe marijuana...
...reputation of approaching each decision on a case-by-case basis, rather than through a sweeping judicial philosophy (see "Establishing Her Independence", 1986). She was the critical swing vote in upholding Roe v. Wade in the 1992 Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision, but voted to end the presidential ballot recount in 2000's Bush v. Gore...
...villagers recount it, the town's 200 or so inhabitants were preparing to observe the holiday quietly when seven planes of the Salvadoran air force swooped in low, dropping several bombs and strafing the area with machine-gun fire. "That was President [José Napoleón] Duarte's Christmas present to us," remarked María Cruz Amaya, who says she spent most of the day hiding in the brush. As it happened, no one was hurt in the raid. Indeed, Armed Forces Chief of Staff General Adolfo Blandón later denied to TIME that there had been any recent air attack...