Word: lets
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...judge to sigh during a hearing last week. "Do you have a magnifying glass?" he quipped. "I need stronger glasses." Says Richard McFarlain, former general counsel for the Florida Republican party: "He's a lot of fun to be around. But when you're in court with him, let him crack the first joke...
...Beck walked Ahmann through a litany of questions, trying to establish the relative delicacy of the ballot. Ahmann admitted that even normal handling can dent, dislodge or dimple parts of the ballot, let alone the vigorous handling inherent in repeated hand counts. You see, Beck seemed to be saying, if even the expert here believes there are marks on the ballots that are in absolutely no way related to voter intent, how can we ask non-experts to differentiate inadvertent marks from intended marks...
...expertise of the expert witness, in which Brace wound up looking like a sort of hobbyist, able to voice his opinions only as "personal observations" based on his long experience in the field. (Or, as Bush lawyer Phil Beck put it disdainfully, "his years of travels.") And then they let him talk...
...understand the principles of the country," Sauls drawled at Brace near the end. "Let's deal with the relevance to this case...
...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 it for us as usual. On the other hand, if anyone was grandstanding for the benefit of the Nielsen families here, as courtroom-camera critics maintain, they were doing a lousy job of it. (With the possible exception of Laurence Tribe, who sounded well-stocked with...