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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Supreme Court really did was ask the state Supremes on what grounds - a federal question or a state question - they based their decision. And it did so in a "per curiam" decision - no dissenting opinions, no signatures, just a seven-page document "speaking for the court" - thus avoiding not only the question of federal statute and court-versus-legislature jurisdiction, but also any perception that the highest court in the country might be split along the same lines as the rest...
...Which means it probably was. So rather than make a 5-4 decision with enormous precedential weight and uncertain political implications, the Court sent the whole "protest"-phase mess back to the Florida Supremes to readdress the issues, clarify its thought processes, and call them back. Which the state court will certainly do, even while hearing Gore's now-certain appeal of Judge Sauls' "contest"-phase decision against him to that same seven-member body...
...Perhaps the Florida legislature will read into the ruling a veiled signal from SCOTUS that the standard for messing with state lawmakers is pretty high. They may be further emboldened to use a special session to loudly anoint their own winner before the Dec. 12 elector-designation deadline...
...presidency. Phlegmatic as ever, Sauls said Gore "failed to carry the requisite burden of proof," summarily rejected Gore's case, and refused to order a recount. Furthermore, Sauls added, the Gore team had failed to establish "a reasonable probability that the results of the statewide election in the state of Florida would be different from the result which has been certified...
...Thus, the Gore briefs will take a brief and largely ceremonial pass through the 1st District Court of Appeals Monday evening before landing in the state's high court...