Remaining defendants may raise any factual or legal issues that are specific as to that particular defendant, do we agree that that would be the best way to proceed . Good afternoon, i would like to take the lead. If any other lawyers have any other we would do a little round robin if everyone is going to be acknowledged. I dont think i need an Opening Statement but i will give you the opportunity to make one, i have Read Everything that has been docketed, there are a couple minuscule issues i want to take up. You can reasonably anticipate with his desk what those issues will be. Let me just make sure before i to Opening Statements clarify a few items, make sure we are all on the same page, i think we all are. The plaintiff amended a complaint which was filed this has essentially removed several counts from the original complaint. As i understand now, the only two remaining counts are for alleged violations of equal protections clause of the 14th amendment and the electoral clause, am
What we were going through then as comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four on the left. So it leaned conservative. But it was also an interesting you know, the court the court is never 100 predictable. I found that Justice Kennedy and Justice Oconnor were middle of the road conservatives. And you could not predict them in all sorts of cases. Susan would you say a bit more about the chief Justice William rehnquist and his approach to leading the court . David well, he had, you know, he had been on the court for a lot of years b
As comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four on the left. So it leaned conservative. But it was also an interesting you know, the court the court is never 100 predictable. I found that Justice Kennedy and Justice Oconnor were middle of the road conservatives. And you could not predict them in all sorts of cases. Susan would you say a bit more about the chief Justice William rehnquist and his approach to leading the court . David well, he had, you know, he had been on the court for a lot of years before he became a chief justice.
, it is the courts preference that the attorney or attorneys for one of the defendants present the general defense and then if it is necessary, the remaining defendants may raise any factual or legal issues that are specific as to that particular defendant, do we agree that that would be the best way to proceed . Good afternoon, i would like to take the lead. If any other lawyers have any other we would do a little round robin if everyone is going to be acknowledged. I dont think i need an Opening Statement but i will give you the opportunity to make one, i have Read Everything that has been docketed, there are a couple minuscule issues i want to take up. You can reasonably anticipate with his desk what those issues will be. Let me just make sure before i to Opening Statements clarify a few items, make sure we are all on the same page, i think we all are. The plaintiff amended a complaint which was filed this has essentially removed several counts from the original complaint. As i unde
David savage, it is the 20th andversary of bush v gore here we are in the midst of sorting through another close election. We asked you because youve been covering this Supreme Court since 1986 to come back and look back in time with us at that 2000 election. What we were going through then as comparison to whats happening now and also some of the lessons that were learned. Lets start with the court itself in 2000. The Rehnquist Court. Nine members of the court and seven of them have been appointed by republican president s. But how do they align ideologically . David its sort of a 54 conservative court. Rehnquist was a leader. Justice scalia was a prominent figure. It leans right. There were several moderate republicans. John stephens, david souter and Ruth Ginsburg and stephen breyer, four on the left. So it leaned conservative. But it was also an interesting you know, the court the court is never 100 predictable. I found that Justice Kennedy and Justice Oconnor were middle of the ro