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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: levy who wrote (102592)	12/5/2000 8:09:07 PM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) of 769670

Here is an interesting anecdote on how Judge Sauls was selected. History might have been different for Al Gore and George W. Bush if a fateful breakfast meeting of the judges on Leon County, Fla.'s circuit court had gone differently. On Nov. 27, shortly after 8 a.m., the chief judge of the circuit called a private meeting to decide how the judge who would hear Mr. Gore's lawsuit for a recount of disputed ballots in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties would be selected. According to the Washington Post, the chief judge, George S. Reynolds III, had a proposition. He wanted to skip the normal computer rotation that randomly assigns judges to cases and instead pick the judge himself. Accounts vary on why the plan was abandoned, but it may have involved a leak to the news media from a party who heard about the proposal. Because the computer lottery in assigning cases was preserved, the Gore lawsuit landed in the lap of Judge N. Sanders Sauls, who yesterday delivered a blistering defeat to the Gore "dream team" of trial lawyers, led by David Boies. Dan Abrams, the legal analyst for NBC News, called it "all all-out slam dunk" against Gore. opinionjournal.com

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