NPR's Nina Totenberg reports on today's oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in the case of Bush versus Gore. The Bush side asked the Court to permanently block the Florida vote recount. The Gore side asked for the counting to resume. The justices asked whether they have a role in the case; are there federal legal questions? Or should they stay out of the matter, deferring to the state court's jurisdiction? They also explored whether there should be a standard for counting imperfectly punched ballot cards.
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