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Politics : Why is Gore Trying to Steal the Presidency? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: KLP who wrote (3697)	12/11/2000 2:54:50 AM
From: Esvida	Respond to of 3887

To David Horowitz: Hogwash!

To: KLP who wrote (3697)	12/11/2000 6:40:22 AM
From: Cola Can	Respond to of 3887

Al Gore has poisoned the body politic --- for generations to come That is the truth! No matter how much and how many times the democrats have their nose rubbed in crap, they wont admit it stinks. This shines light on their crooked mentality. They don't want to hear the truth. They don't want to do what is right. They WILL support a man who isn't fit to lead garbage pick up. They WILL support a man who abuses the law and has tried to tear this country in half. For the democrats to support such a person is like having an old lady beaten by thugs and no democrat admiting such an action is wrong. If they aren't against it, then they are for it.

To: KLP who wrote (3697)	12/11/2000 8:37:35 AM
From: Proud_Infidel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3887

Justice Sandra Day O'Connor could hold key vote Source: Nando Times Published: December 11, 2000 Author: By LAURA MECKLER, Associated Press WASHINGTON (EST nandotimes.com) - Some 100 million citizens cast ballots for president on Election Day, but the decision may ultimately come down to just one voter: Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. O'Connor, a Republican who has provided the fifth vote for a host of important high court decisions, again joined the 5-4 majority in stopping the hand count of ballots across Florida, as Republican George W. Bush had requested. But Supreme Court observers believe she is the jurist most likely to switch sides after oral arguments are heard Monday in the case likely to decide whether Bush or Democrat Al Gore becomes the nation's next president. "O'Connor is often seeking a way of coming down between the two wings of the court," said A.E. Dick Howard, an expert on the Supreme Court at the University of Virginia. By siding with the majority on Saturday, she indicated that she thinks Bush has a good chance of winning. But that doesn't lock her in, Howard said. "Even if it's uphill, the Gore attorneys have a fighting chance of dislodging O'Connor from that block." Appointed in 1981 by President Reagan, O'Connor was an Arizona state legislator and state appeals court judge before taking her seat as the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court. In recent years, she's helped lead what some see as a revolutionary return of power to the states. That leads some to reason that O'Connor might back the Florida Supreme Court in its decision to allow the hand counting of ballots that may have been missed during a machine tally. Others say this case is not at all about states' rights, but the interpretation of federal law. The court has strong liberal and conservative wings that are frequently at odds, often leaving the deciding vote to O'Connor and, to a lesser extent, Justice Anthony Kennedy, another Reagan appointee who could also prove pivotal in the Florida case. In the court's last term, O'Connor cast only four dissenting votes out of 73 signed opinions - the fewest of any on the nine-member court. And in 21 cases decided 5-4, she was in the majority 19 times. "Where she goes is where the court goes," said Erwin Chemerinsky, a law professor at the University of Southern California. In the last year, she joined liberals in striking down a state law banning so-called "partial-birth" abortions and she joined conservatives in making it harder for some convicted killers to challenge their death sentences in federal court. She was with the conservatives as they struck down a federal law allowing rape victims to sue their attackers in federal court and when they ruled that the Food and Drug Administration cannot regulate tobacco as a drug. But in a pivotal 1992 abortion case, she joined liberals in reaffirming the right to a legal abortion. In any case, it may not be so crazy if the ultimate decision comes down to just one woman, said Daniel Polsby, a law professor at George Mason University. "The country is divided every which way," he said. "What could be more emblematic than having the thing decided by one vote?"