Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Since David has been involved in the Florida legal effort since the start, it would obviously be best" for him to argue the Florida case before the court, Payne said. "He and Larry Tribe worked all night on the brief, and Mr. Tribe returned to Florida this morning when the case went to court...
...cases had been together from the beginning. They shared not only the essential issues but most of the Bush legal team, and the basic facts in both were never in dispute: Two Republican supervisors of elections had allowed Republican party workers access to two stacks of absentee ballot applications, in order to fill in voter ID numbers - left off the forms in a printing error - and save the applications from the trash...
...befits this labyrinthine post-election maze, a very complicated opinion. But after the smoke clears and the legal pundits have trailed off in exhaustion, the U.S. Supreme Court's book-length decision on Bush v. Gore may signal the death knell for Al Gore's presidential campaign...
...Tuesday night at 10 p.m. the nation's highest court released its much-anticipated opinion concerning the hand recount of Florida's undervotes. And for the next 45minutes, the nation's leading legal experts fumbled around with the Court's language, trying to decipher the underlying message in the ruling...
...While the legal ramifications of the ruling may not be clear for some time, the political implications were immediately clear: This is spectacularly bad news for Al Gore...