Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Even after Friday, many legal experts were still shocked that the court took the state case to begin with. They contend that the Justices will simply decide not to rule, availing themselves of an option used several times each term: dismissing the case as "improvidently granted," a phrase at once imperious and penitent that means the Justices believe the case does not present the issues they thought it did when they accepted it. The court may wait a while to decide whether to do this, looking carefully at how Gore's contest proceeds. "I think the Justices will be concerned...
...Gore to win, he needs to survive a bewildering legal obstacle course--not just the U.S. Supreme Court but also the Florida Supremes, Judge N. Sanders Sauls' circuit courtroom, the Florida legislature and even the U.S. Congress. (Of course, there's a chance a judge will throw out all those absentee ballots in Seminole County, which would make the ride a whole lot easier.) If Gore crashes anywhere along the road--or simply moves too slowly--he loses the race. --By Andrew Goldstein...
...currently playing such a high-profile role for Bush that lately he has been overshadowing his boss. In the first crazy 36 hours after election night, it was Cheney, not Bush, who made the key decision to ask his old colleague James Baker to head Bush's Florida legal team. And in taking to the airwaves as spokesman and transition director, Cheney has been so clearly in command that Republicans don't know whether to be cheered or worried. "We have to keep Dick Cheney healthy," goes a joke making its way around G.O.P. circles in Washington. "Otherwise it will...
...more serious, summoning Cheney to Capitol Hill for every important vote in case he's needed to break a tie. Last week even Bush's syntax reinforced the idea that Cheney was in charge. "One of these days all this is going to stop," Bush said of the Florida legal battles, "and Dick Cheney and I will be the President and Vice President...
...Florida was called for Gore, Jeb was back in the family's bosom, a hero for all of 30 minutes when Florida moved back into Bush's column. When the polls shifted again, W. tried to get Gore not to retract his concession by citing Jeb as a controlling legal authority that he had won Florida. W. was wrong then, but may yet turn out to be right. If Gore wins the contest, and the legislature has picked its own electors, then Congress, on Jan. 5, will have to choose whether Gore's or the legislature's electors will...