Word: legality
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...legal particulars aside, the vigorous and attentive grillings of both sides showed, refreshingly, that whatever its failings, our Supreme Court is a body based less on partisan agendas than on the principle of being skeptical, contrary cusses, knocking around those who would dare petition them like ping-pong balls. Some cameras-in-the-courts detractors say that's why it's useless to broadcast SCOTUS hearings live: Under this questioning, even for lawyers it's often impossible to tell whose side the adversarial judges are really on until they rule...
...argument - adversarial, but often bordering on the arcane, at least for this idiot - also showed that some of the arguments in favor of broadcasting the court's sessions are probably exaggerated. In particular, the idea that the raw video would truly educate the viewing public more than legal analysts do seems a bit bogus, what with all this abstruse section 2 and section 5 and section 15 business. More likely, we laymen will focus on who gets off the best zingers - our armchair analysis determined by our pre-existing beliefs - then let Rush or Chris Matthews spin...
...severe ruling for Bush doesn't invalidate Gore's legal situation or strategy, it just forces him to refile his contest under different terms. But it could invalidate Gore himself. What filters down to the mostly-just-disgusted-by-now public will be that Bush went to the Supreme Court to stop manual recounts, and he won. And Gore, though he didn't go looking for a fight, lost. Big time...
...Florida Supreme Court spokesman Craig Waters relayed the news at the end of a very busy legal day: "We conclude as a matter of law that the Palm Beach County ballot does not constitute substantial noncompliance with the statutory requirements mandating the voiding of the election." With prejudice. Meaning end of story...
...Friday, at the end of a very busy legal day, it stopped. The Florida Supremes consolidated all the voter lawsuits in one and declared the ballot legal. Period. No revote. No remedy. No thousands and thousands of votes for Al Gore...