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...coaching staff has not yet determined how Saturday’s game will be split up between the two quarterbacks...
...lead defense attorney on the Timothy McVeigh case, was Brown's boss for two-and-a-half years in the early '80s. "He did mainly transactional work, not litigation," says Jones. "There was a feeling that he was not serious and somewhat shallow." Jones says when his law firm split, Brown was one of two staffers...
...included in the drafting of the document and shown than the political process works. But the Shi'ites and Kurds railroaded the Sunnis and passed the constitution after breaking a promise to achieve consensus. Instead of uniting to approve a document, the sectarian groups are further apart than ever, split over the issue of federalism...
Outside law schools, the Rehnquist court will be remembered for its bitterly split 5-to-4 decision in 2000 in Bush v. Gore, which many Democrats saw as sneaky Republican prestidigitation to give George W. Bush the White House. It was one of the few decisions in which Rehnquist supported the use of federal power to restrict a state, one whose supreme court had ordered a manual recount of the ballots in the presidential race. But Rehnquist didn't win them all, and his first years on the court were often spent in lonely dissents. And over the years...
...Another disappointment may be that outside law schools, the Rehnquist court is probably best known for its bitterly split 5-4 decision in 2000 in Bush v. Gore, which many Democrats saw as sneaky conservative prestidigitation to give George W. Bush the White House. It was one of the few decisions in which Rehnquist supported the use of federal power to restrict a state, in this case Florida, whose supreme court had ordered a manual recount of the ballots in the presidential race. The court ruled that because Florida counties had no consistent standard for such a recount, the votes...