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...while the SCOTUS opinion did little to clarify the various rights and responsibilities of parents and prosecutors, it did identify one crux of the argument: Actively refusing available medical treatment for yourself is one thing, but presuming to impose your beliefs on another person - especially if that person is a child who may not have formed any religious beliefs at all - is something altogether different...
...anything more demanding than a TelePrompTer on live television, let alone in front of millions of viewers and the boss. It was a chilly night in Washington, and in rather a touching moment on MSNBC, one analyst's hands were actually shaking as he pawed desperately through his little SCOTUS booklet, apparently not reading according to the prescribed manner of any written language but anxious to show he was trying. As anchors at their respective desks champed at their mikes for the single answer, the money shot, the one payoff we'd been waiting for for a month, they discovered...
...went, for a period of a half hour or so, during which you could see a consensus developing as, network by network, analysts hit on SCOTUS passages that more or less put the kibosh on further recounts. Which is not to say there wasn't plenty of room for interpretation. By 11 or so, there was agreement that it was all but over. Or that it wasn't! By just past 11, MSNBC was, at least on and off, calling George W. Bush the "President-elect." Or he wasn't! Maybe Al Gore would wait to answer...
...hand it to them: They gave me what I wanted. By midnight, the only people, legally well-read or not, who didn't know exactly what the SCOTUS decision said and meant were the Gore camp, who wanted a day to scrutinize and respond to the ruling. It figures. After all, the votes for them have already been cast. The news networks go through a recount every time we grab the remote...
...that's where Gore and his lawyers finally parted company. The man who wouldn't think about quitting ceased Tuesday night to think about litigating. He went to bed having consulted only Tipper, and let what little post-SCOTUS suspense there was percolate until morning. If you wanted closure when midnight struck and the "safe harbor" Rehnquist chose was a dry bed, it was possible to think the lowest of Gore. Would he call the U.S. Supreme Court "no controlling legal authority," and make one last...