Word: uncertainity
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...Which means it probably was. So rather than make a 5-4 decision with enormous precedential weight and uncertain political implications, the Court sent the whole "protest"-phase mess back to the Florida Supremes to readdress the issues, clarify its thought processes, and call them back. Which the state court will certainly do, even while hearing Gore's now-certain appeal of Judge Sauls' "contest"-phase decision against him to that same seven-member body...
...over-combative Democratic lawyer Stephen Zack, who insisted on conducting a voir dire (to test a witness's expertise). Zack was unceremoniously cut short by a red-faced Judge Sauls, who furiously pointed out the attorney was not asking relevant questions and told him to sit down in no uncertain terms...
...come on the ship they call the Mayflower, We come on the ship that sailed the Moon, We come in the age's most uncertain hour, And sing an American tune...
...Paul Simon sang.) Talk about uncertain hours. And yet, you gotta love it. Here's an election with everything America has to offer--choices, arguments, laughs, gaffs, screw-ups, recounts of recounts, old people with placards, chaos without penalty and--God bless 'em--lawyers. I love this country. Thanks to moments like this, I know it's there...
This is what's happening in this most uncertain hour, when not only do we feel like a single place but also experience a useful sense of calm in the middle of lawyers. For that we can thank the Founders for inventing a constitutional structure that provides a safety net for the uncertain hours. And the country is held together by will as well. On TV, the handlers of the two candidates continue to warn against fistfights in the halls, but they are the only ones likely to throw a punch. The rest of us--perhaps because the election...