Word: enough
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Saturday afternoon, the recount was under way in Florida, with a strong chance that by day's end Gore might pick up enough votes to move 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...
...state supreme court would be short-lived. The court had clearly "overstepped" its authority, Rove said. The U.S. 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...
...some court watchers think that may not have been enough. When the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling vacating the Florida Supreme Court's first decision, it directed the Florida justices to provide a clearer explanation for their reasoning. At the time it issued its ruling ordering the recounts, the Florida court still had not attended to that homework assignment from on high. It can be argued that the court addressed it implicitly in its new decision, which avoided making the same mistake, or that the first ruling has been overtaken by events. Still, the U.S. Supreme Court...
...Sauls' fact finding. The justices rejected his conclusion that Gore had not met his burden of showing that sufficient legal votes were rejected to warrant a recount. In part, they relied on what they called "the ultimate Catch-22" in Judge Sauls' approach: he had concluded there were not enough rejected votes without ever looking at the ballots themselves...
Here is where the first principles come in. Life is messy. It is often maddeningly so, as in the case of Florida. Over many centuries, people lucky enough to live in democracies have devised a method to draw some kind of certainty from life's irregularities. Through their representatives they write laws, and these laws become neutral, objective principles to which everyone can appeal. A law is intended to bring order out of chaos. When it turns out that the law is poorly suited to its purposes or otherwise deficient, then it can be changed. But it must be changed...