Word: ruling
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush as the winner of Florida's 25 electoral votes for president of the United States," she said after signing page after page of the cobbled-together returns with a big blue fountain pen. She declared it a victory not for Bush or for Gore, but "for the rule...
...Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Lieberman appeared minutes later to to say the rule of law had not fared so well at all and to give the Democratic mantra - that not all the votes had been counted - and to start immediate p.r. preparations for the long and turbulent "contest" phase ahead. "From the beginning of this extraordinary period, Vice President Gore and I have asked only that the votes that were cast on Election Day be counted," he said in his warm-up for Gore's Monday morning address, calling the Secretary of State's count "incomplete and inaccurate." James...
...Would their sacred honor be challenged as well? Gore had attacked Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas during the campaign; would they hold a grudge? Bush had praised them but now faces the possibility that their federalist, hands-off-the-states philosophy makes them less likely to rule in his favor...
...What Americans seem to regard as dirty cheating is clever, high-paid lawyers going into the courts to try to actually force judges to rule on what's legal and what's not, or even to make a little law themselves. Now, that's not fair. We're comfortable with buying or wrestling votes, or busing in mobs of protesters, but trying to use the courts to get people to abide by statutes, or to clear up murky ones, well, that's dirty pool...
...this point is not as advanced," Ryan said. "It is still working on its platform. If things move along, we won't rule out looking to join...