Ambiguity as legal decision making

[Barry Rene DeCicco]

As I understand it, the immediate effect
of the Federal SC decision 'vacating' the Florida
SC ruling was to overturn it.  Even though
the Federal SC didn't actually overturn it,
it is now null and void.

Theoretically (as I see it) the Florida SC is
to re-do their decision, and hand it back
to the Federal SC. However, there's only two
weeks or so until the Electoral College and
Congress actually elect the president.  After
this, Gore will be in a politically untenable position.
I'm sure that the Federal SC has a couple other
stalling (forever) tricks after that.

It's actually a clever trick.  For practical purposes,
the Federal SC has helped Bush, but they've got a smoke
screen of impartiality.

Barry