Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...precedent" for future elections and "threatens to put us in a constitutional crisis which we are not in now by any stretch of the word." He asked them, Bush-style, to "reconsider." Gore spokesman Chris Lehane, dusted off for the attack, called the special session a "Bush-brother brazen power play designed to circumvent the counting of the votes in our court system." (When asked about it, Bush gave his usual spiel about "counts and recounts" and referred the reporter to James Baker...
...Both sides are also trying to get the U.S. Supreme Court involved. David Boies argued in filings to the Court Thursday - and for the cameras - that neither the Constitution nor federal law gives the legislature the power to name its own electors. The Gore team would like the Court to stay away from this one for now. Bush's lawyers had already asked the Court, while it considered the Florida Supreme Court's pre-certification behavior, to go ahead and plan the endgame as well...
...Besides the "in such a manner as the legislature thereof directs" passage in the U.S. Constitution, an 1845 federal law gives state legislatures the power to choose the method of elector appointment if the state "has failed to make a choice on the day provided by law." Republicans argue that that day was November 7, and with the electorate still undecided, the Dec. 12 deadline is in danger from Gore's lawyers. Democrats argue that the voters did choose on Nov. 7, and we just don't know what the choice...
...Making a move unprecedented in Florida history doesn't seem to trouble Republican legislators; they claim they'd be restoring order to a process gone mad. Democrats insist the Republicans, who control the House 77-43 and the Senate 25-15, are crazy with power - and will have hell to pay from the voters if they go through with the appointment and Jeb Bush signs off on it. (Republicans gently point out that it's Floridians that put them in charge in the first place; Democrats say that was then and this...
...That will be decided in the next month. One of the factors that may determine whether Barak is challenged for leadership is whether Bibi is going to run. Nobody wants to run against Bibi, who right now beats everyone else in the polls. Many powerful figures in the Likud detest Bibi, but they know that he's the one who can win. They see him as having left the party in a political and organizational mess, and now, just as they're bringing down Barak's government, he steps back in to claim the spoils. Many Likud members of parliament...