Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Crimson had a golden opportunity to put the game away on the power play with 13:48 left in the contest. Instead, it was the Catamount--with some help from the officials--who turned the game around...
Late in the power play, sophomore defenseman Aaron Kim failed to contain the puck in the Catamount zone. Kim then did not scramble back fast enough on defense, allowing UVM center John Longo to race up-ice unimpeded...
...votes were counted and the result were to favor Gore, no legalism on the part of the court could stand up to that challenge. We agree with that characterization, but wonder whether it is a fair fight--how can the votes of the people of Florida compete with the power of the U.S. Supreme Court, especially when grossly used? If the court were to rule that these votes should be counted, they must also allow for an extension of Florida's elector certification deadline-an act which, unlike the current stay, if certainly within their power, as the Tuesday deadline...
...RUTH BADER GINSBURG APPOINTED BY Bill Clinton (1993) She usually votes with the liberals, but Ginsburg has been restrained in using Court power to second-guess legislatures. During the first round of arguments in this case, however, she also defended the Florida court's power to interpret the word of the state legislature...
...ordered his aides not to interrupt him for anything short of war. "I don't care what's going on," he told them. "I don't want to be bothered." A bushelful of memos had piled up on his desk, the fruit of a frantic political week of Senate power struggles framed inside the titanic power struggle for the White House. Leahy figured the Florida Supreme Court would bring the hammer down on Al Gore's final appeal and didn't care to watch. So he glared when an aide came in just after 4 p.m. "I think...