Word: argumentative
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...According to briefs filed Wednesday at the Supreme Court, the Bush team views their looming appearance before the Justices as nothing less than a test of the complete post-vote process. Their argument holds that if SCOTUS finds the Florida Supreme Court acted outside its jurisdiction in extending the recount tally deadline - that it does not, in their view, have the power to override preexisting election laws - the Court has simultaneously nullified Gore's contest of the Florida election results...
...nefarious number if I ever heard one. Besides being unlucky, the number thirteen is also too damn small for something as large, as looked forward to, as necessary as winter vacation! This is not about comparing us to other schools. I won't rehash the old (but true) argument that every other school (with the possible exception of Princeton, but they still have eating clubs so they're not exactly trend setters) has a longer break than us. I won't recall the humiliation of having to leave home just as all your high school friends are coming back...
...Bush files federal lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Miami to halt all hand counts. The argument: since there is no uniform standard governing hand counts, voters will be treated unequally, violating their equal protection rights guaranteed by the 14th Amendment to the Constitution...
...Federal District Court, Bush lawyer Theodore Olson argues that the hand-count process is "selective, standardless, subjective, unreliable and inherently biased." Gore lawyer Bruce Rogow responds that the hand count is more accurate and actually increases democracy. Judge Donald Middlebrooks, a Clinton appointee, rejects the Bush argument, finding that election mechanics are a state, not a federal, issue...
...charged Republican election workers of improperly writing in voter-registration numbers on thousands of absentee ballot requests in heavily Republican Seminole County, and wants to have all the county's 15,000 or so absentee ballots discarded from the general tally. Gore's team is wary of such an argument, which runs counter to their contention that "every vote must be counted." The case challenging the Seminole County ballots will be heard December...