U.S. Supreme Court Decides the Election.On December 12, five weeks after voters went to the polls, the U.S. presidential election finally came to an end. By a 5-4 ruling, the U.S Supreme Court cleared the way for Governor George W. Bush, the Republican candidate, to become our 43rd President. The nation's highest court overturned an earlier decision by the Florida Supreme Court, which had ordered a hand recount of 40,000 disputed ballots. The Florida recount had raised questions about a lack of uniform standards. "There is no basis for requiring the counting of improperly marked ballots," said Chief Justice William Rehnquist Noun 1. William Rehnquist - United States jurist who served as an associate justice on the United States Supreme Court from 1972 until 1986, when he was appointed chief justice (born in 1924) Rehnquist, William Hubbs Rehnquist . The court's decision to remand To send back. A higher court may remand a case to a lower court so that the lower court will take a certain action ordered by the higher court. A prisoner who is remanded into custody is sent back to prison subsequent to a Preliminary Hearing before a tribunal or magistrate (send) the case back to the Florida Supreme Court came just two hours before the deadline for certifying Florida's 25 electors electors, in the history of the Holy Roman Empire, the princes who had the right to elect the German kings or, more exactly, the kings of the Romans (Holy Roman emperors). . Because of the deadline, the high court ruled that ensuring a fair count was not possible. Many who disagreed with the court's decision wanted to continue the fight. But, said David Boies David Boies (born March 11, 1941) is a lawyer and Chairman of Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP [1]. He has been involved in various high-profile cases in the United States. , an attorney for Vice President Al Gore Noun 1. Al Gore - Vice President of the United States under Bill Clinton (born in 1948) Albert Gore Jr., Gore , "you can't appeal the U.S. Supreme Court." The court was as divided in its opinion as the nation. One justice, who disagreed with the majority, said that "we may never know with complete certainty the identity of the winner of this year's Presidential election." Nonetheless, Gore conceded con·cede v. con·ced·ed, con·ced·ing, con·cedes v.tr. 1. To acknowledge, often reluctantly, as being true, just, or proper; admit. See Synonyms at acknowledge. 2. on December 13, calling on Americans to "heal the divisions of the campaign." President-elect Bush later struck a similar theme, saying, "I was not elected to serve one party, but one nation." |
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