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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan B. who wrote (106473)	12/8/2000 7:07:19 PM
From: active22	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

No, but they way he cut off Democratic presentations and motions during the trial seemed biased. I never thought Gore would get four justices today, maybe Tallahassee ain't all bad.

To: Dan B. who wrote (106473)	12/8/2000 7:09:35 PM
From: Broken_Clock	Respond to of 769667

Chief justice: decision will put the country in 'unprecedented' crisis The Associated Press Web-posted: 6:55 p.m. Dec. 8, 2000 TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The chief justice of the Florida Supreme Court on Friday said the court's decision to order presidential election recounts "propels the country into an unprecedented and unnecessary constitutional crisis." Chief Justice Charles Wells wrote in a dissenting opinion that by ordering the recount the four justices who did so created "imponderable problems... "I have to conclude that there is a real and present likelihood that this constitutional crisis will do substantial damage to our country, our state, and to this court as an institution," Wells said. The court's 4-3 decision reversed a trial judge's ruling that Al Gore was not entitled to the hand recounts with which he sought to reverse the razor-thin lead by which George W. Bush was certified the winner of the presidential race in Florida. The state's 25 electoral votes will settle the contest for the White House. Wells said the majority decision had "no foundation in the law of Florida" as it existed on Nov. 7, when the election was held, or indeed, until the Supreme Court ruled. He had sharply questioned the rival lawyers on that point when the case was argued before the court on Thursday. Wells, 61, became chief justice in July, his turn in a position that rotates among the justices. He was appointed to the state Supreme Court in 1994 by Democratic Gov. Lawton Chiles.