Word: could
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...state. The top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, Leahy will be in the thick of things if the election dispute ends up in Congress. He summoned his staff lawyers and ordered them to dig through the law books and statutes, war-gaming all the ways this fight could go. But it was moving so fast that his lawyers couldn't possibly keep...
With each court ruling in Bush's favor, beginning with a stunning double win on Monday, his allies built their hopes not only of victory but of clarity, that he could start naming a team and setting a tone. The Governor's mansion was decked with holly, and in public Bush sounded increasingly gracious. He felt Gore's pain, he said; he unveiled a transition slogan--"Bringing America Together"; his team took care to drop names of Democrats he might name to a Cabinet, what programs had the best chance of passage through bipartisan seas...
...ahead of Bush for the first time. Then the U.S. Supreme Court joined the battle. In another acrimonious split decision--this one 5 to 4--the Justices halted the recount and scheduled oral arguments for Monday on George W. Bush's claim that the manual counts are unconstitutional and could do "irreparable harm" to his candidacy. Al Gore's top lawyer, David Boies, was eating lunch with another hotshot lawyer, Stephen Zack, when the news came over the television. Boise threw up his hands and cried, "What possible irreparable harm could they be talking about?" At that moment, 700 miles...
...Supreme Court would have no choice but to lower the boom on the state justices. The Senators weren't convinced. They worried that the Supreme Court wouldn't move quickly enough to stop the recount before Gore pulled ahead and the media announced a new winner. That could alter the landscape drastically--and permanently...
...nine Justices--either Anthony Kennedy or Sandra Day O'Connor--would have to peel from the majority that granted the stay, deciding that the Florida Supreme Court had not changed the rules after the election or otherwise violated the Constitution, which confers power over elections to the legislatures. It could happen. If it doesn't, Gore is out of options. The election will be over...