(Well if Algore Junior says they can't, then I guess they can't!  Please Algore. go home, sit down and shut up! - tha malcontent)

By Anne Gearan (Direct descendent of Joseph Stalin)
Associated Press Writer
Thursday, Nov. 30, 2000; 11:43 a.m. EST

WASHINGTON �� Al Gore's lawyers argued to the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday that the Florida Legislature would be on shaky constitutional ground if it appoints its own slate of presidential electors.

(Hey "Free Press", you forgot to let the public know that this Florida Legislature is a "heavily Republican" or a "dominantly Republican" Florida Legislature!  Someone take Anne Gearan into Louis D. Boccardi, President and CEO of the Associated Press' office and give her good spanking! - tha malcontent)

"It is not self-evident that such direct legislative appointment is even available" under federal law, Gore's lawyers wrote in the latest round of filings.

Congress set Election Day as a uniform national date for selection of electors, Gore's lawyers wrote.

The brief, filed a day ahead of a showdown session in the high court, argued that Florida made its presidential choice on Nov. 7, "although by a vote so close and under a counting process so flawed that the state's courts are still attempting to ascertain ... what the choice was."

The Democrats also accused Republican George W. Bush of making "remarkable requests" of the high court, and said Bush had backed off his claim that a Florida court ruling violated federal law.

(So, did you all at the AP go and find an example of the Bush camp backing off?, or are you just printing Algore Junior's Trial Lawyer's spin as FACT?! - tha malcontent)

Gore's paperwork was a response to Bush's filing Tuesday, in which he asked the Supreme Court to forestall what he called a potential constitutional crisis over appointment of electors.

Bush's separate reply is also due Thursday.

"Any state legislative attempt simply to appoint electors after the fact would appear to be federally pre-empted," Gore's lawyers wrote.

(Are you going to quote the Bush camp verbatim at any time in this "news" article, or is this a DNC talking point disguised as a legitimate news story? - tha malcontent)

The Electoral College meets Dec. 18. Florida's 25 electoral votes will be decisive, since neither Bush nor Gore has a majority without them.

(I am going to say this one more time for you who are terminally ignorated... GEORGE W. BUSH HAS WON FLORIDA'S 25 ELECTORAL VOTES!, did you hear me that time "Free Press", or should I say it again? - tha malcontent)

A legislative committee in Florida has held hearings this week into the possibility of stepping into the disputed presidential election. The Republican-led Legislature may decide to appoint its own slate of electors to the Electoral College if the issue is still unresolved by Dec. 12, the federal deadline for setting a state's electors.

(There it is!, Anne finally call the Florida Legislature what the "Free Press" can't call the Florida State Supreme Court, a partisan group.  Remember sheep, Legislators are elected at the WILL OF THE PEOPLE, Supreme Court Justices are token appointments as political favors! - tha malcontent)

Democrats also say they are concerned the Legislature might act if Gore prevails in his court challenges in Florida and captures the current slate of electors.

Bush wants the Supreme Court to rule that Florida's high court was wrong to extend a state deadline for counties to turn in their vote totals, and that the results of late hand recounts should be omitted from the state tally. That could roll the election clock back in Florida and give Bush a 930-vote lead instead of his current 537-vote margin.

The Florida court gave three counties extra time to recount ballots by hand at Democratic request. One county finished, one did not and one decided to stop for lack of time.

(Don't forget, the DemocRAT who headed up that canvassing board also said that Algore Junior would probably not recieve the needed votes and the hand count would then have been a waste of time, money and resources. Of course that did not stop Algore Junior from suing his fellow DemocRATS on that canvassing board! - tha malcontent)

Because the recounts are over, at least for now, some scholars have said the Supreme Court has little useful role in the fast-changing legal drama at this point.

But in his court filings Tuesday, Bush urged the court to put its stamp of finality on the election, and raised the possibility of dueling slates of electors � one with the imprimatur of the courts, the other set by the Legislature.

"By acting now to reject the Florida Supreme Court's unwarranted intrusion into the regulation of the manner of appointing electors, this court will eliminate the potential for a constitutional crisis arising out of an unseemly conflict among Florida's legislative and judicial branches regarding the appointment of electors," Bush wrote then.

("By acting now to reject the completely Liberal Democrat dominated Florida Supreme Court's..."  that is how it would have been written if the "Free Press" was actually "Free", but it's not, it is just another branch of the DNC's tree of tyranny! - tha malcontent)

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