Word: appealable
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...merits of the appeal, the U.S. Supreme Court has become the ultimate authority--though that title may well equally be claimed by the Florida Supreme Court or the U.S. Congress, who are charged by the Constitution to resolve difficulties in federal elections. Today's hearing will be the opportunity for both sides to argue their case about what is a vote and when it should be counted, and we can hope that Justice Antonin Scalia's opinion, as voiced in his comments Saturday, do not reflect the opinion of all, or even 5, of the justices...
...fair count was over--with the unlikeliest of villains to blame. By a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court, visibly splintered along ideological and partisan lines, ordered Florida to cease all vote counting until the court has a chance to rule on Texas Gov. George W. Bush's appeal. This ruling runs contrary to state and federal laws that require voter canvassing boards to do what whatever they can--not just with machines--to determine a voter's intent. Furthermore, the decision virtually guarantees that votes will not be counted by tomorrow, the date by which all states must...
...state supreme court decision rescuing him from the abyss. "I had a feeling from the start that the principle that every vote should be counted would end up prevailing." But he hadn't predicted what the U.S. Supreme Court did the next day. About the prospects for Bush's appeal, he said, "I still have that same faith...
...bothered." A bushelful of memos had piled up on his desk, the fruit of a frantic political week of Senate power struggles framed inside the titanic power struggle for the White House. Leahy figured the Florida Supreme Court would bring the hammer down on Al Gore's final appeal and didn't care to watch. So he glared when an aide came in just after 4 p.m. "I think you may want to hear what the Court just did," the aide told him. "Well, is it all over?" Leahy asked...
...fast. Both sides had already written their appellate briefs by the time the Friday ruling came down, and the 12,000 ballots from the Seminole County case were already waiting in the evidence room at the Florida Supreme Court for the inevitable appeal that could come as soon as Monday. And Gore adviser Ron Klain refused to commit the veep to a concession, even if Gore goes...