Word: sundays
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...issue is the Florida Supreme Court's Friday ruling ordering hand recounts of undervotes statewide. Saturday, SCOTUS stayed that recount by a vote of 5-4, and collected briefs from both sides on Sunday afternoon in preparation for Monday's hearing...
...wandered to 16th-century France. There, for nearly 50 years, French Catholics and French Protestants attacked one another with conscienceless enthusiasm. The to and fro of the Gore and Bush camps, the postmodernist recounts of the Sunshine State, the genteel animadversions of James Baker and David Boies on the Sunday talk shows - all these represent quite an advance from the massacre on the eve of the feast of St. Bartholomew, when the Catholics cut down 3,000 Huguenots as part of the sectarian tit for tat that went on until the entire argument collapsed in exhaustion and the Edict...
...count of all the rejected ballots, not just undervotes but overvotes too, just to be sure. That's only 175,000 total ballots statewide, and if there's time enough before constitutional meltdown to count undervotes, there's time for overvotes too. These were the Republican talking points on Sunday, meant to grab some last bits of high ground before the Court crowned Bush the next day. Perhaps those "substantially probable" five Court votes are only readying to call James Baker's bluff. Maybe they'll even have all 6 million Florida ballots counted, and call Gore...
...Florida goes, so goes Israel? The Jewish state's election, too, seemed poised Monday to be settled in a complex series of maneuvers in courtrooms and legislatures - although in Israel's case the maneuvering would take place long before the voting. Former prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday declared his intention to run for the nation's top job, following Ehud Barak's shock decision to resign and seek a new mandate in fresh elections. But as things currently stand, Netanyahu is disqualified from the race: Barak resigned under a special law that requires, in such circumstances, a direct election...
...Baker, visibly more relaxed before the cameras ever since he's had Florida Chief Justice Charles Wells to quote admiringly, did look especially confident Sunday as he made the rounds. He spent a lot of time defending his old "judicial fiat" attacks on the Florida Supreme Court (back when it was unanimous) as merely "legal arguments," not unseemly ones. He lovingly quoted Scalia, and grabbed a fistful of high ground. "We're not afraid to let every vote be counted," he told Russert. "The issue is, what is every legal vote...