U.S Supremes Stop Recount + Military+xxx = Bush
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Left Leaning CBS Gives Great Hope to Bush
http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,255969-412,00.shtml
"Here We Go Again
Late Supreme Court Ruling Keeps Election Saga Going
Battle Moves Back To Federal Courts
By CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2000
AP / CBS
(CBS) Minutes after the Florida Supreme Court delivered it’s jurisprudential stunner Friday night, a few reporters caught up with Dexter Douglas, Gore’s number two lawyer on the case. The laid back, unflappable, legal powerhouse in good ole boy disguise who checks his cattle every night after work said simply, "Chaos."
Can "chaos" be an understatement?
Late Saturday political heads were spinning anew as a divided U.S. Supreme Court granted George Bush’s plea that a manual count of Florida "undervotes" be stopped immediately.
All across Florida, judges, election officials, party lawyers, and county clerks who had pulled all-nighters to get the votes counted by Sunday, slammed on the breaks and skidded into dumbfoundedness.
So once again, the key to the road map of what’s next is found in the courts -- this time federal courts. Legal briefs are due to the Supreme Court Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. Oral arguments commence Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. and are scheduled to last 1 1/2 hours.
Bush’s team will be heartened by the brief opinion of Justice Antonin Scalia, that’ said "the issuance the stay suggests that a majority of the Court, while deciding the issues presented believe that the petitioner [Bush] has a substantially probability of success."
Bush’s lawyers have found further encouragement in a dissenting opinion by the Florida court’s Chief Justice, Charles T. Wells, who wrote that he saw a "real and present likelihood" that the result would be "substantial damage" to the nation, the state and the high court itself. He said the majority ruling had "no foundation in the law of Florida" and that a lower court decision rejecting the recounts was correct.
If the Supremes give Bush a clear, decisive, timely victory on Monday or Tuesday, it becomes extremely difficult to concoct a scenario where Gore can prevail. It would be the final deathblow in a saga that has made the word “final” a joke.
If the high court hands Gore a slam-dunk win, hurdles still remain for the Vice President. Most obviously, he would have to get a winning margin in the recount of Florida’s “undervotes.” That is not a done deal, and some sources say the scattered and preliminary hand recounts on Saturday actually looked good for Bush."
http://www.cbsnews.com/now/story/0,1597,255969-412,00.shtml
"Here We Go Again
Late Supreme Court Ruling Keeps Election Saga Going
Battle Moves Back To Federal Courts
By CBSNews.com's Dick Meyer
WASHINGTON, Dec. 9, 2000
AP / CBS
(CBS) Minutes after the Florida Supreme Court delivered it’s jurisprudential stunner Friday night, a few reporters caught up with Dexter Douglas, Gore’s number two lawyer on the case. The laid back, unflappable, legal powerhouse in good ole boy disguise who checks his cattle every night after work said simply, "Chaos."
Can "chaos" be an understatement?
Late Saturday political heads were spinning anew as a divided U.S. Supreme Court granted George Bush’s plea that a manual count of Florida "undervotes" be stopped immediately.
All across Florida, judges, election officials, party lawyers, and county clerks who had pulled all-nighters to get the votes counted by Sunday, slammed on the breaks and skidded into dumbfoundedness.
So once again, the key to the road map of what’s next is found in the courts -- this time federal courts. Legal briefs are due to the Supreme Court Sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. Oral arguments commence Monday morning at 10:00 a.m. and are scheduled to last 1 1/2 hours.
Bush’s team will be heartened by the brief opinion of Justice Antonin Scalia, that’ said "the issuance the stay suggests that a majority of the Court, while deciding the issues presented believe that the petitioner [Bush] has a substantially probability of success."
Bush’s lawyers have found further encouragement in a dissenting opinion by the Florida court’s Chief Justice, Charles T. Wells, who wrote that he saw a "real and present likelihood" that the result would be "substantial damage" to the nation, the state and the high court itself. He said the majority ruling had "no foundation in the law of Florida" and that a lower court decision rejecting the recounts was correct.
If the Supremes give Bush a clear, decisive, timely victory on Monday or Tuesday, it becomes extremely difficult to concoct a scenario where Gore can prevail. It would be the final deathblow in a saga that has made the word “final” a joke.
If the high court hands Gore a slam-dunk win, hurdles still remain for the Vice President. Most obviously, he would have to get a winning margin in the recount of Florida’s “undervotes.” That is not a done deal, and some sources say the scattered and preliminary hand recounts on Saturday actually looked good for Bush."
MSNBC POLL: ++++++++ Surprise MSNBC!!
MSNBC is blatantly pro-Democrat. They have posted an article that pushes their agenda:
“The Day Democracy Was Defeated”
They strongly attacked the recent 5/4 decision to halt the "recount". In their unbiased way, they placed an Internet poll just to the left of this article. Here is the question:
"Should the U.S. Supreme Court have halted the recount in Florida?"
The result was not what they expected
Feel free to read and vote:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/501078.asp
MSNBC is blatantly pro-Democrat. They have posted an article that pushes their agenda:
“The Day Democracy Was Defeated”
They strongly attacked the recent 5/4 decision to halt the "recount". In their unbiased way, they placed an Internet poll just to the left of this article. Here is the question:
"Should the U.S. Supreme Court have halted the recount in Florida?"
The result was not what they expected
Feel free to read and vote:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/501078.asp