Word: split
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Both chambers meet on Jan. 5. The Republican-majority House would probably pick Florida's Bush electors. The evenly divided Senate would probably choose Gore's (as Vice President, Gore gets the deciding vote). If this split decision happens, the chief executive of Florida--Jeb Bush--gets to choose which slate to endorse. Will he crown his brother...
...Saturday afternoon, the recount was under way in Florida, with a strong chance that by day's end Gore might pick up enough votes to move ahead of Bush for the first time. Then the U.S. Supreme Court joined the battle. In another acrimonious split decision - this one 5 to 4 - the Justices halted the recount and scheduled oral arguments for Monday on George W. Bush's claim that the manual counts are unconstitutional and could do "irreparable harm" to his candidacy. Al Gore's top lawyer, David Boies, was eating lunch with another hotshot lawyer, Stephen Zack, when...
...Americans like to think of the third branch of government - especially the highest court in the land - as a bastion against the surgical divide in the country. The voters couldn't decide between Bush and Gore, and Congress is split between Republicans and Democrats, but as we groped for a solution to the election mess, we couldn't help looking to the courts for a wisdom that rises above the nation's two angry political camps...
...pols, pundits and principals alike all peered over the brink of a big decision by a split Supreme Court, Democrats all got asked if Scalia was on record endorsing George W. Bush, and Republicans were all invited to denounce the wild and crazy Florida Four. (Thus cramming the four dissenting Supremes into an even tinier Democratic box.) Often enough, the consiglieres obliged...
...Bush team now suspects it has finally sussed out the high court's stand on these manual counts and on the Florida high court that set them in motion by its own split decision Friday. And they figure they've got their five votes...