Bush has solved a very short-term problem by filing the chief justice position [with a choice] that probably will get confirmed very easily. But he has set in motion a dynamic that will make the next [court nomination] much harder. |
It is certainly appropriate and within their rights to appeal. |
It is certainly appropriate and within their rights to appeal. But we think there legal argument is without merit and would be rejected by the justices on grounds this is properly a case before the Florida Supreme Court because the issues are issues of state law. |
That's just not how they think. |
They've spent a week trying to exclude the votes of men and women in uniform, police, fire, nurses, doctors. Now, their newfound dedication to the counting of ballots, though welcome, seems a little off. |
What it shows is what we've been saying all along -- there is no question that the majority of people on Election Day believed they left the booth voting for Al Gore. |