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Even if the court were to decide that Florida's authority is absolute in this case (as it should), the court will have left Florida without much hope of counting its vote before the Tuesday deadline. The court said the count must halt because if "illegitimate" votes were counted and the result were to favor Gore, no legalism on the part of the court could stand up to that challenge. We agree with that characterization, but wonder whether it is a fair fight--how can the votes of the people of Florida compete with the power of the U.S. Supreme...
...court made a mistake in choosing to hear Bush's appeal, and an even greater one in stopping the Florida count. It will remain to be seen, regardless what the court decides, whether their credibility and reputation will recover...
While abroad you can count on receiving Social Security (unless you move to some communist countries). If it is automatically deposited into a U.S. bank account, you can use an ATM card to withdraw it. Once you are abroad, Medicare will not pay for any medical expenses. In some countries expats are able to participate in the national insurance plan or health system. Many retirees simply pay local doctors as they go and return to the U.S. for any serious problem. A number of companies, like BUPA International, will provide coverage to expats; organizations like American Citizens Abroad can help...
...overturn the Florida Supreme Court's Nov. 21 ruling. Olson, a stellar appellate lawyer who worked in Reagan's Justice Department alongside Kenneth Starr, argued that the Florida court's ruling amounted to the creation of a new law after the election--a breach of the federal Electoral Count Act of 1887, a law previously untested in court and exhumed recently by G.O.P. archaeologists. The law was written about a decade after the last truly chaotic American election, the Rutherford Hayes-Samuel Tilden race of 1876, when Hayes became President after the wheeling and dealing of competing slates of Southern...
...argument based on a less developed part of Bush's brief--that the Florida court didn't rely solely on statutes of the Florida legislature when it fashioned its solution to the case but relied more on the state constitution and the expansive notion of having every vote count. If that's true, then there's a violation of Article II of the Constitution. At the end of the day, Tribe told members of his team that he was surprised by the prevalence of that line of questioning, which could spell doom for the Vice President. Another bad sign: Justice...