Word: ordered
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...seemed clear at oral argument in the first round that the Justices were split on partisan grounds. "The most worrisome thing," says University of Chicago law professor Cass Sunstein, "was that the conservatives just gave Gore's lawyer a hard time, and vice versa." And the curt order the court issued Saturday showed the rift is still there. The dissenters issued a stern rebuke to the majority. By stopping the recount, Justice Stevens wrote for all four dissenters, the majority was abandoning its "venerable rules," including the well-established principle of deferring to state courts on questions of state...
...battle of the courts started with the Florida justices, and it's hard to overstate the boldness of their sweeping recount order. American courts have certainly been historic before: ordering public schools to admit blacks in the 1950s and helping oust President Richard M. Nixon by ordering him to turn over the Watergate tapes in the 1970s. But those decisions were handed down by the U.S. Supreme Court, steeped in prestige and equal in the Constitutional scheme to the President or Congress. The Florida court is made of seven people even most Floridians couldn't have picked...
...Supreme Court has overturned it once, and some say the Republican majority there might be willing to do it again this week. Below, Judge N. Sanders Sauls of the Leon County Circuit Court, who has been at odds with the Florida Supreme Court for years, had declined to order recounts. In Atlanta, a federal appeals court was considering a Bush lawsuit aiming to throw out all the recounts. And in Tallahassee, the Florida legislature--another old enemy--has been threatening to ignore the court and simply select the Bush Electoral College delegates. As for Jeb Bush, he was feuding with...
...been that the recounts violate the 14th Amendment's equal-protection guarantee because they were occurring in some counties and not in others. The effect, the Republicans said, was to give extra voting rights to citizens in counties that have recounts. The justices' response was, once again, shrewd: order undervotes counted in all counties, and no one is legally disadvantaged...
Despite its heavy fortifications, the Florida Supreme Court's decision may yet be vanquished. One of the best clues right now to the U.S. Supreme Court's concerns may be Scalia's brief concurrence to the stay order. In it, he expresses doubt--as Florida Chief Justice Wells did in his own dissent--about the constitutionality of letting the standard for counting hanging chads and dimples vary from county to county. And Scalia raises the long-standing Republican concern that multiple recounts may lead to degradation of ballots...