Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...persistence of the Gore legal team is testament to either incredible faith or unbelievable delusion. Despite a sequence of setbacks, the Democratic attorneys continue to tear through the Florida legal system, hoping (somehow, somewhere) to find a judge sympathetic to their cause. After Leon County Circuit Court Judge Sanders Sauls rejected Gore's contest of the Florida election results Monday afternoon, David Boies was raring to appeal, intimating that the case was already well on its way to the Florida Supreme Court...
...Later, at one of his pool-camera press briefings, Bush said he was "pleased" at the decision and that Americans should be "comforted" at the high court's involvement. He said that several times, and even showed some willingness to tiptoe verbally through the legal implications for his side and Gore's. But when asked about a Gore concession, Bush wouldn't second Cheney's Sunday call for Gore to quit...
...Once they've gotten an audience with the high court (and that's assuming the seven Justices are moved to accept the case at all), Boies et al. face a staggering legal challenge. Somehow, in order to overcome Judge Sauls' ruling, the Democrats must convince the Florida Supreme Court that the Leon County judge abused his discretion by ruling...
...absolutely - its started already. But not in Austin. George W. Bush, in his pool-camera photo-op Monday after the Supreme Court non-ruling, stopped resolutely short of Dick Cheney's "I do think he should concede" statement on Sunday. And Bush, so slow to the microphone throughout the legal wrangling, won't be at all tempted to join Cheney on the hard line now. He can afford to be quiet...
...Supreme Court didn't exactly rule against him Monday, but it didn't give him much to crow about. And Judge Sanders Sauls, after a long lost weekend of evidentiary hearings and legal arguments, gave Gore absolutely nothing of what he asked for except a make-or-break in the Florida Supreme Court. It was a very bad day for him legally. Does the chorus of "Gore must go" start tonight...