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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...What about the United States Supreme Court's ruling of a week or so ago? What did they decide? A: Friday, December 1, lawyers for Bush, Katherine Harris and Gore appeared before the nine Justices of the United States Supreme Court to argue their case. Bush claimed the Florida State Supreme Court overstepped its bounds in ordering an extension of the certification deadline, while the Gore team argued the high court was operating within its jurisdiction. Last Monday, the Justices issued an unsigned brief "vacating" the Florida Supreme Court's decision and asking that court to clarify its reasoning...
...SCOTUS send the case back? A: How and why, the U.S. Justices are asking the Florida court, did you come to your decision? SCOTUS is particularly concerned as to whether the Florida high court based their ruling on the Florida constitution or on statutes authored by the state's legislature. (This distinction is critical because the current U.S. Supreme Court generally takes a very hands-off approach to state matters, particularly those within the jurisdiction of state lawmakers...
...When is the deadline for Florida to choose its electors? A:The state must officially select its slate of 25 electors by December 12. If, however, legal challenges are still pending at that time, the Florida Legislature, which is controlled by Republicans, has the right to choose the electors on their own. With one eye on that prerogative, the Gore team is stuck in a sort of legal Catch-22: They want to exhaust all of their legal options without extending the deadlock so far as to give the Florida legislature the right to independently appoint Bush-friendly electors...
...First would be secretary of state, but because Madeleine Albright wasn't born in the U.S., she doesn't qualify. That moves us down to Treasury, and Larry Summers, which could lead us to the very elegant situation in which the man who signs your sawbucks is also the commander-in-chief. Following Summers, the line...
...president's scheduled 4 p.m. press conference Friday wasn't going to be a happy one. He was going to have to come out and make his plea to the American people for more time. For more patience. And, most of all, for them to ignore Florida secretary of state Katherine Harris when she stood up on Saturday at noon and declared George W. Bush to be, in the eyes of the state of Florida, the President-elect of the United States...