Word: contestability
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...back into Bush's column. When the polls shifted again, W. tried to get Gore not to retract his concession by citing Jeb as a controlling legal authority that he had won Florida. W. was wrong then, but may yet turn out to be right. If Gore wins the contest, and the legislature has picked its own electors, then Congress, on Jan. 5, will have to choose whether Gore's or the legislature's electors will be seated. But if the two houses of Congress split on that (probably, with a Republican House and a Democratic Senate), the decision will...
...week ago, Leon County circuit court judge N. Sanders Sauls was going about his business, hearing domestic-violence cases in nearby Wakulla County, when a computer randomly assigned him a colossal headache: the presidential-election contest that has since brought the eyes of the world into Sauls' courtroom. When reporters started scrambling to profile him, the judge didn't even have a resume to give them. Instead, he handed out a list of friends who could vouch for him. Among his hunting buddies: Dexter Douglass, the courtly Floridian who is one of Gore's lead lawyers. Douglass says he gets...
...been heard on account of the balloting, and you call this "wild"? An election held in Nigeria in 1993 led to the President-elect's being thrown in jail for trying to assume office and ultimately to his mysterious death. Going to court to decide who won this contest is, in my opinion, as civilized as it gets. MAY AKABOGU-COLLINS Vista, Calif...
...previous vote. Another consideration for Rehnquist: This decision will likely define his term as Chief Justice. The political considerations are staggering; no Court has ever played such an active role in determining the presidency before, so Rehnquist in particular may exercise extra caution before voting to end Gore's contest without the safeguard of at least a partial recount...
...sloppy activist compromise that only served to waste three weeks of national time. The high court of which Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg sounded so enamored Monday could have done the legally simpler thing on Nov. 17: Allow Katherine Harris her first certification and allow Gore his de novo contest on Nov. 18. And give Florida's 67 canvassing boards three weeks instead of three days...