Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Sunday morning at 9 sharp, the Leon County circuit court judge got right down to business, asking Bush's legal team to consider trimming their bulging witness list and tapping his fingers on his lectern. "I want to get your case finished this morning, counsel...
...Public universities, though, could face legal challenges if they were to try recruiting more males. In California a strict anti-affirmative-action statute effectively precludes gender-based outreach. In Texas and Florida - both of which have largely abolished preferences in admissions policies - state officials say there are no special plans to lure more men. Many schools still try to balance programs historically dominated by one gender (like engineering and social work) by offering slots to underrepresented students. But that doesn't necessarily boost, say, the number of Hispanic males. And that has led some educators to skirt the recruiting rules...
...ultimately, commonsense aspects of Brace's claims may make a lasting impression on Sauls. The idea that hanging chad happens - and can fool a machine scanner - is still a valid and sensible argument for a Miami-Dade manual recount, whatever the legal questions involved (that'll come later), and there was no evidence Sauls didn't see it. And when Beck had finished, and wiped the blood off his lips, Gore lawyer Zack made up some lost ground, bringing in a genuine Votomatic whose basin that was "filled to the brim with chad." The intuitive virtues of Brace's testimony...
...Florida election results didn't go quite as long as everyone expected - an increasingly cranky Judge Sanders Sauls adjourned his Leon County courtroom for the night at 6:15 p.m., citing staff hunger pangs - it went long enough to establish a decidedly discouraging trend for Gore's legal team...
...During his cross-examination, Bush lawyer Beck peppered Hengartner with hypothetical questions relating to the left-hand side of the voting machine, apparently hoping to discredit Brace's testimony but serving primarily to underscore a serious miscalculation on the part of Gore's legal team - which would probably have been wise to have stuck with the Miami-Dade recount as the basis for their contest. Then, instead of wasting two witnesses trying to prove esoteric mechanical flaws of machines in Palm Beach, the Democrats might have scored a few points by insisting they were only trying to procure a first...