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...clock ticks. David Boies was out within the hour to downplay the decision - "We think the U.S. Supreme Court decision does not in any way affect the contest before Judge Sauls" - before favoring reporters with some well-spun analysis of the implications. For Boies, still fighting for a clean-slate hand count of some 14,000 votes, a decision that at worst costs his client only the 400-odd Broward County votes and does nothing to the ongoing "contest" except muddy it up a bit is just another fly on his legal windshield. "There's no reason this needs...
Will the Florida legislature step in? It's likely, but not a foregone conclusion. House Speaker Tom Feeney says "the House is prepared to act" and order up a special session to mull naming a slate of electors if Al Gore's contest runs long in the courts. His counterpart, Senate President John McKay, says "the Senate will not be rushed to judgment... We have only one chance to get things right...
...could, that is, if a very specific chain of events comes to pass. And this is where things get ultra-complicated: If the recount leaves Gore the winner, could the Florida legislature still override the recount tally and name their own Bush-friendly slate of electors? According to Robert Bennett, constitutional law professor at Northwestern University, the answer to that question depends on one's interpretation of a specific statute, which holds that the legislature can become involved only if there is a "failure of the choice process." If one defines Election Day as the "choice process," the legislature...
...just wanted to be one of the dogs in this fight, they got it. Surprising few Democrats but alarming many, a GOP-dominated special committee voted along party lines Thursday to recommend calling a special session of the legislature next week to discuss the possibility of naming its own slate of electors by December...
...Democrats scoff and call it "an insurance policy" to make sure it's George W. Bush's electors who go north to D.C. and Bush that follows them. They say that Bush's slate was already filed in Washington after Sunday's certification, and that the only reason Republicans want to do this is to overturn an imminent Gore win in the courts...