Word: scalias
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...five Justices now in the "conservative" box - Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor and Kennedy - evidently agreed with Bush's claim that the undervote count was not only an unlawful conjuring by the Florida Supreme Court but was doing his candidacy "irreparable harm." More ominously for Gore, they may also agree, as Bush's application claimed, that the Florida Supreme Court decision was unconstitutional, that it conflicted with Article II - which says the legislature chooses electors - and that it violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In which case, they'll toss the whole thing out, and go back...
...Rehnquist and Scalia were very skeptical of the ruling...
...Agree with his judicial philosophy or not, for instance, but Antonin Scalia's dripping sarcasm alone could fuel a small cable channel's ratings. Under questioning, Florida secretary of state lawyer Joseph Klock began, "We have not addressed the federal issues, because -" Scalia cut him off: "Well, this is a federal court!" To Laurence Tribe, on the question of whether the Florida legislature might have "invited" the state supreme court's intervention, Scalia - alluding to legislature's disdain for court action, sneered, "Maybe your experience of the legislative branch is different from mine...
...Gore's base, glimpsing the names of Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas on a pro-Bush majority decision, will know exactly what he means...
...watched Republicans attack the Florida court as partisan because six of the seven judges were appointed by Democrats; but seven of the nine Justices were appointed by Republican Presidents, including two by Bush's dad. Would their sacred honor be challenged as well? Gore had attacked Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas during the campaign; would they hold a grudge? Bush had praised them but now faces the possibility that their federalist, hands-off-the-states philosophy makes them less likely to rule in his favor...