Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...ends in moral, political and legal stalemate - resolved by a sliver in the U.S. Supreme Court. I could argue the Gore case with perfect coherence and logic; I could argue the Bush case with equal coherence and logic...
...just in time to get his picture taken for the morning papers. He had talked to Bush and Cheney. "They are of course very pleased and gratified that seven Justices agreed there were constitutional problems with the recount ordered by the Florida Supreme Court," he said, and thanked the legal team. "This has been a long and arduous process for everyone involved on both sides. Thank you, and good evening." A coded victory speech, and a very short one. He was still calling Bush "governor," and Bush was still waiting for Gore...
...American people, by the way, seem to have done fine. Through 35 head-scratching days, their divisions never got more violent than the things they shouted at the TV. Now they'll be tuning in for the last press conferences of a political and legal fight that splashed read and blue paint all the way up the Supreme Court steps. They were cynical about politics before; now they know how far politics goes. But it wasn't the stuff of revolution then and it won't be now. Unless Jesse "this is Dred Scott" Jackson really catches...
...unless we wait through Wednesday to find that the media and George W. Bush have called this election prematurely once again, and Al Gore has found, somewhere in the high court's noninterventionist intervention, one more legal route around the Supremes and back from the dead...
...Then we met Gore's lawyers, led by the imperturbably brilliant David Boies, who was heroic for a lawyer but made lousy company for a would-be statesman. And Gore, his cause completely wrapped up in theirs, made few successful attempts to distinguish himself from his legal lieutenants and their try-anything battle plan, which even a non-president must sometimes do for appearances' sake...