Word: rifted
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...that vote as well as several others, they created a deep rift with D'Alessandro and Evans, leading both to say they felt seriously undermined...
...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 law. The dissenters concluded that the majority...
There were deep divisions as well in the Florida Supreme Court's own ranks. It is Jurisprudence 101 that when a court delivers a bombshell decision, the judges struggle to be unanimous. But the Florida court split 4-3, and the rift was a bitter one. Attached to the court's ruling was a dissent from the Chief Justice warning that the majority risked sending the nation into "an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional crisis"--a powerful built-in sound bite for critics waiting to tear the majority decision apart...
...rounds of the media, dispensing what is presumed to be the outrage of all blacks at what is presumed to be their disenfranchisement. He was the leadoff voice in an op-ed symposium in the Sunday New York Times on the question, "Can Bush Mend His Party's Rift With Black America...
Things have gone downhill from there. Everett, who routinely arrived at the ballpark after the prescribed time, got into a profane shouting match with his manager, Jimy Williams, after he returned from his suspension. The rift erupted again recently when Everett, nursing an injury, arrived late for a doubleheader. He was enraged to see that he was slated to start the game. Swearing loudly in the clubhouse, he nearly got into a fistfight with Darren Lewis, who started in his place. Williams expressed surprise and confusion that Everett had not contacted him about being late...