Word: processing
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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This election will be remembered as the only presidential contest that has been essentially decided by the U.S. Supreme Court, an unfortunate end to this turbulent process. The Florida Supreme Court's decision should have stood; it alone is the highest judge of Florida's state laws. The U.S. Supreme Court, by intervening in this issue when it clearly could not come up with a convincing, one-sided decision, has not upheld its duty to impartially enforce the law. By the admission of the dissenting justices, the court may have permanently damaged its credibility as a nonpartisan institution...
...travesties of this election drama will not quickly leave the collective American consciousness. Serious doubts over Bush's legitimacy, the impartiality of the Supreme Court and the basic functioning of our democratic process have been raised. They will not fade easily. But the one glimmer of hope that we can garner from the ebbing chaos is that these lingering questions should serve in the long run to improve our democracy and the functioning of the American government...
...justices realized that "the whole recount process is so flawed that there is no time to fix it," he said. "This is a case of finality for finality's sake...
Sharon R. Krause, an assistant professor of government who teaches Government 10, "Introduction to Political Thought," agreed that a conclusion to this drawn-out process was important...
...maintain a workable majority government (as Barak did). Now, Netanyahu looks set to return to the same booby-trapped office. But even having to govern via a traditionally fractious Israeli coalition government won't stop Netanyahu from keeping his foot firmly jammed on the brake of the peace process. Or at least, proceeding only in Bibi steps...