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...meter run, freshman Margaret O'Callaghan tied the personal record she set last week, cruising to a victory...
...then there's a violation of Article II of the Constitution. At the end of the day, Tribe told members of his team that he was surprised by the prevalence of that line of questioning, which could spell doom for the Vice President. Another bad sign: Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a Reagan appointee who often provides the swing vote in 5-4 cases, also scrutinized Tribe closely--and rescued a stammering Olson at one point with a softball query. Many court watchers saw her words as a sign of an emerging 5-4 majority for Bush...
...administrators who speak publicly about what goes on there are treated as outcasts--we rarely get a glimpse of how the Justices' minds work. (By contrast, we get far too close a look at what goes on behind closed doors on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.) Swing voters O'Connor and Kennedy seemed to bat questions between them about how they might find a federal role for the court, almost conversing with each other through the advocates. At one point, Justice David Souter, the moderate appointed to the court by Bush's father, helpfully gave Tribe a page number. "Page...
...SANDRA DAY O'CONNOR APPOINTED BY Ronald Reagan (1981) A conservative with an independent streak, she has become the Court's most influential Justice. The former state senator is likely to be sympathetic to Florida legislators who say their laws have been changed. But she also prefers the Court to stay out of state matters...
...five Justices now in the "conservative" box - Rehnquist, Scalia, Thomas, O'Connor and Kennedy - evidently agreed with Bush's claim that the undervote count was not only an unlawful conjuring by the Florida Supreme Court but was doing his candidacy "irreparable harm." More ominously for Gore, they may also agree, as Bush's application claimed, that the Florida Supreme Court decision was unconstitutional, that it conflicted with Article II - which says the legislature chooses electors - and that it violated the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. In which case, they'll toss the whole thing out, and go back...