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...SCOTUS is watching...
...Tuesday at 12:30 p.m., the Florida Supreme Court announced that it would hear Gore's appeal. But they're still looking at the same steaming pile that Sauls wouldn't touch. If they leave it be, they can play ball with SCOTUS, honor the canvassing boards anew, and maybe put Gore and this whole thing to bed. If they pick up a shovel looking for the pony, they've got to get it done in a week - once, of course, they figure out how to do it - or set off a whole new fire in the legislature...
...Perhaps the Florida legislature will read into the ruling a veiled signal from SCOTUS that the standard for messing with state lawmakers is pretty high. They may be further emboldened to use a special session to loudly anoint their own winner before the Dec. 12 elector-designation deadline...
...Gore imagined it well enough that very day for his after-church inner-circle huddle Sunday to include Walter Dellinger, a constitutional scholar and former U.S. solicitor general. Nobody's saying what the plan is, but the acronym "SCOTUS" immediately springs to mind...
...Florida Supreme Court takes supplemental briefs from Gore and Bush lawyers Tuesday at 3 p.m. on the case SCOTUS sent back to them for retooling, and by then court spokesman Craig Waters will likely have announced the arrival of the Sauls hand-count appeal, which Gore still thinks he can win on legal grounds. Sauls' sweeping "burden of proof" rejection may well have been an acknowledgment that David Boies was going to sue no matter what he did. So Sauls kicked the whole mess upstairs, and it'll be up to Florida's highest court - barring a 5,000-vote...