Word: could
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Tribe also claimed that, though the U.S. Constitution does give the legislature the power to choose electors, the legislature could delegate that power to the judicial branch...
Observers listening to the justice's questions could not predict which side had the edge. If the court reverses the state's decision, the Bush campaign hopes that Gore's challenges will lose needed momentum, particularly in the court of public opinion. Most polls show the country evenly split as to whether a speedy resolution is preferable to a full deliberation of all the disputes. An ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 80 percent of Americans would support whichever candidate is inaugurated...
Gerken also said 3 U.S.C. 5 is not as clear-cut as it could be and could use clarification by the courts...
...brick flew through a Democratic Party office window in Broward County with a note warning, "We will not tolerate any illegal government." Prospects that were unimaginable one day become probable the next: it will go to the House, no, to the Senate; Gore will cast the tie-break vote; Could Strom Thurmond end up President? Dick Cheney's fourth heart attack fit the script for a week of jumpy tempers and raw nerves...
...Bush saw it, the only reason he was not happily vetting Cabinet members was because the Democrats wanted to change the rules for deciding elections, and the Florida Supreme Court decided to let them. When the justices ruled Tuesday night that the hand counts could proceed, provided they were finished by 5 p.m. Sunday, the Bush camp for the first time felt some genuine dread. "I guess the rules aren't the rules anymore," said an ally bitterly. Didn't it mean anything that the votes had been counted and counted again; the state legislature had set a one-week...