Word: scalias
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...Tribe didn't have an easy time of it either, particularly when Justice Antonin Scalia, a Reagan appointee and the intellectual leader of the court's conservative wing, bustled in with an argument based on a less developed part of Bush's brief--that the Florida court didn't rely solely on statutes of the Florida legislature when it fashioned its solution to the case but relied more on the state constitution and the expansive notion of having every vote count. If that's true, then there's a violation of Article II of the Constitution...
...Even that last bastion of presumed objectivity, the U.S. Supreme Court, is deeply divided 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...
...Since the Court granted George W. Bush his stay by split decision Saturday, the race has been on to daub the nine Justices with the same red and blue blood as the rest of us, with Scalia and Breyer holding up the battle flags. When Scalia stepped out front to say the words Gore didn't want to hear - "a majority of the court... believe that the petitioner has a substantial probability of success," some legal experts called it the understatement of the year. On Monday, the highest court in the land was going to call the game...
...counts themselves. They reside in the laws of Florida, Texas, Illinois and lots of other states, and are generally accepted as a last resort when elections get too close to call. To a national court mindful on both its left and right flanks of "clouds" over this national election (Scalia himself defended the stay's ability to produce "the public acceptance democratic stability requires"), hand counts themselves may be hard to dismiss...