Word: powers
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...swing votes among the nine Justices--either Anthony Kennedy or Sandra Day O'Connor--would have to peel from the majority that granted the stay, deciding that the Florida Supreme Court had not changed the rules after the election or otherwise violated the Constitution, which confers power over elections to the legislatures. It could happen. If it doesn't, Gore is out of options. The election will be over...
...roll back Clinton executive orders banning oil and natural-gas drilling on public lands. (Cheney told Murkowski to send him a memo.) Strom Thurmond, who turned 98 that day, danced a little jig to demonstrate that he had no intention of going anywhere. Both sides were focused on the power-sharing issues that sprang from the 50-50 tie in the Senate--an even split that assumed, of course, that Bush would defeat Gore, keeping Lieberman in the Senate as the 50th Democratic vote, with Cheney the Republican tie breaker. The even split gave moderates hope that they alone would...
...afternoon deadline would have been met. Nobody could say with certainty who would win the recount, but since most of the undervotes came from Democratic precincts with large African-American populations and outdated voting machines, Gore's chances seemed good--and so Bush's lawyers did everything in their power to shut down the recount...
...undervotes. The ruling had Gore partisans extolling the noble tradition of an independent Judiciary--the one actor, in a state run by Republican Governor Jeb Bush and Republican ally Katherine Harris, free to do the right thing. But to the Bush camp, the Florida justices were just liberal power grabbers, intent on overturning a certified election result favoring the Republicans. Florida house speaker Tom Feeney blasted a renegade court, "more partisan than judicial...
...courts in American history. As the U.S. Supreme Court considers the case this week, the debate will be phrased in legal niceties: deference to state courts vs. deference to state legislatures; Article II of the U.S. Constitution and 3 U.S.C. Sec. 5. But beneath the law talk is a power struggle of epic proportions. The stakes could hardly be higher. How the U.S. Supreme Court rules could, of course, determine the next President of the United States. But something even larger is hanging in the balance: whether Americans will continue to have faith in the courts, the rule...