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Fine. But for the judiciary to earn--and sustain--that pre-eminence, it needs to exercise restraint. After all, it has no power of its own. Unlike the legislature, it can raise no revenues. Unlike the executive, it commands no police forces. Its power rests entirely on people's belief in its legitimate authority. But that belief can--and should--be forfeited when courts do what the Florida Supreme Court has done: wantonly usurp their two coequal branches, denying both the plain language of a law and the plain authority of the official elected to administer that...
...line: Miami-Dade stopped counting because of time constraints, not lack of crowd restraint. Bartlit quoted an independent Miami-Dade canvassing board member describing the GOP crowds - there merely to protest the closed-to-the-press proceedings, Bartlit said - as "noisy and peaceful." Lieberman and other Democrats' charges of thuggery, Bartlit said, were "designed to heat up the situation." Bartlit's job is to cool...
George W. Bush has shown tremendous restraint during the past few days in declining to point out that the big mess we're now in is a perfect illustration of what he was saying throughout the election campaign--that the government always screws things up. After all, compare the conduct of this election with the way things are done in the private sector. Private corporations hold elections all the time, and they routinely deliver victory to the management's nominees for the board of directors by huge majorities without any fuss. Only an election run by government bureaucrats would...
...NASDAQ is down 40% from its all-time high and down 26% for the year. The Dow and broader market gauges are down for the year too. With so much damage on the books, it would require superhuman restraint by investors not to greet future rallies with some selling in a bid to get even and get out, or just take some risk off the table...
...wouldn't have been this embarrassing if Bush and Gore had insisted on more restraint. "It's a free-for-all," Rogow said, and one day in his office, the incoming calls backed him up. Dershowitz was on Line 1, and former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, a Gore point man, was on Line 2. Both were calling to apply some muscle...