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...phoned chairman Orrin Hatch to ask if he would walk with Leahy to the Supreme Court hearing. The Senators felt it was important to stage a bipartisan show of support for the American judiciary, which has taken a drubbing since the Florida Supreme Court ruled to extend secretary of state Katherine Harris' certification deadline. Even Florida judge Charles Burton, the long-suffering head of the Palm Beach canvassing board, flew up to see the show...
...what a show it was. The Justices allowed 50% more time than usual for arguments, perhaps because the case raised an important issue about the very role of supreme courts: whether they have the right to inject themselves into state election disputes...
...leader of the court's conservative wing, bustled in with an argument based on a less developed part of Bush's brief--that the Florida court didn't rely solely on statutes of the Florida legislature when it fashioned its solution to the case but relied more on the state constitution and the expansive notion of having every vote count. If that's true, then there's a violation of Article II of the Constitution. At the end of the day, Tribe told members of his team that he was surprised by the prevalence of that line of questioning, which...
...Justices affirm the Florida Supreme Court ruling, perhaps adding a short instruction that the Florida court rewrite its ruling to recognize that the state legislature, not the Florida constitution, controls how electors are appointed. Gore wouldn't gain any votes from such a ruling, but he would gain an important talking point. "He needs disputes to the Bush claims from someone other than his campaign staff, someone else saying these votes need to be counted," says one of the Vice President's advisers. Some Democratic graybeards say Gore's losses in the courts forced him on television too often last...
Even after Friday, many legal experts were still shocked that the court took the state case to begin with. They contend that the Justices will simply decide not to rule, availing themselves of an option used several times each term: dismissing the case as "improvidently granted," a phrase at once imperious and penitent that means the Justices believe the case does not present the issues they thought it did when they accepted it. The court may wait a while to decide whether to do this, looking carefully at how Gore's contest proceeds. "I think the Justices will be concerned...