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Olson also argued that the Florida Supreme Court overstepped its bounds and acted in a capacity reserved for the Florida legislature. He noted that the Florida Supreme Court made reference to the Florida State Constitution in its decision, but that the state document should have been trumped by Article II of the U.S. Constitution, which states that the legislature should choose how presidential electors are selected...
Observers listening to the justice's questions could not predict which side had the edge. If the court reverses the state's decision, the Bush campaign hopes that Gore's challenges will lose needed momentum, particularly in the court of public opinion. Most polls show the country evenly split as to whether a speedy resolution is preferable to a full deliberation of all the disputes. An ABC News/Washington Post poll found that 80 percent of Americans would support whichever candidate is inaugurated...
...another it will send a message to state courts--either one of support, or one of 'we've got our eye on you and don't go too far,'" she said...
Twas election night all over again. The halls were decked, the pundits were quacking, Democrats said Florida was still too close to call. By the Sunday 5 p.m. deadline, the counting still wasn't done, but in a dramatic signing ceremony at 7:30, secretary of state Katherine Harris certified George W. Bush the winner by 537 votes. But even as Bush asked Dick Cheney to head a transition team and named Andrew Card his chief of staff, the Democratic faithful were primed to fight on--especially after Harris decided to leave out the results of the hand count Palm...
...could proceed, provided they were finished by 5 p.m. Sunday, the Bush camp for the first time felt some genuine dread. "I guess the rules aren't the rules anymore," said an ally bitterly. Didn't it mean anything that the votes had been counted and counted again; the state legislature had set a one-week deadline for the counties to certify their results; and the secretary of state had affirmed it? Now the state supreme court was throwing that deadline out and making a new one all its own. That wasn't interpreting the law, it was inventing...