Word: contestability
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...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...
...There are other, less happy, outcomes on the horizon as well. Most immediately, the possibility that the high court refuses to pass a sweeping judgment on Gore's ongoing contest in Florida. This would effectively pull the rug out from underneath the Republican argument, and could set them up for disappointment down the road...
...court in Atlanta). And since those judges have already heard the case (and ruled against Bush), unless there is a new twist in the case compelling the court to revisit the arguments, Bush loses automatically. The legal focus would then revert to the Leon County courthouse, where Gore's contest of the election results continues...
Circuit Court Judge Nikki Ann Clark hasn't yet reached the exalted instant-celebrity status of, say, Sanders Sauls, presiding over Al Gore's hand-count contest, or even Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters...
...Bush lawyers are fighting hard to keep it under control. First, they asked that Clark recuse herself, having recently been turned down for a promotion in the judicial ranks by Gov. Jeb Bush. No dice. Then they asked Clark to consolidate the case with the Gore contest before Judge Sauls, as a way of tying all their fortunes to a case they have an excellent chance of slowing to a crawl. No dice again. The Bush camp appealed to the Florida apeeals court, and was denied...