Thanks for looking in the arguments are done the arguments that may well decide the presidency and of course that disputed florida recount issue 
The US supreme court is weighing what it heard today from attorneys for al gore and george w. bush the issue whether the supreme court in tallahassee overstepped its bat overstepped its bounds when it ordered a hand recount of forty two thousand votes throughout the state 
While both sides presented their oral arguments protesters on the courthouse steps let their voices be heard 
Supporters for bush and gore waved placards with competing slogans like five to four 
The mood inside the courtroom of course decidedly more deck or a sense summer attorneys on the republican side argued that florida's certified results giving bush the wind should stand 
And they also said the democrats are putting too broad interpretation undetermined in the intent of the voters based on the look of the ballots but justices scalia and soon or question the bush team's own standards on that issue 
When a mission does not count those ballots that it's not supposed to for that's absolutely correct justice scalia's detached the chads entirely 
They've been you come to this has been euphemistically was euphemistically referred to as is people votes that haven't been counted these are ballots where that the system created by florida both with respect to the initial tabulation and the preferred system for the recount the automaker recount in close elections is to submit those ballots to the same a cannibal school lunch meat and bone objective scrutiny that the that the initial loss tell was done 
I was so far unreasonable in defining legal vote 
in effect to the presumption of reasonable interpretation under article two course dana said the vice president will in his contest of the florida election if the court rules against him his attorney did all he could to convince the justices the recount is both legal and proper 
Justice anthony kennedy questioned gore's counsel closely on whether florida's supreme court went too far 
It was interpreted needs the state law legal challenges over absentee ballots from martin and seminole counties could still change the election outcome fear red lights lawyers filed written briefs with the state supreme court on whether to throw out twenty five thousand ballots democratic voters are appealing to crush all rule ends friday in which certain court judges found that while republican election supervisors had not acted properly 
There was no reason to discover the votes 
Florida state lawmakers are also in special session holding election hearings today custody issue experts and members of the public will testify about whether that body the legislature should choose its own slate of electoral college voters 
The republican dominated house and senator holding a special session to consider the whole issue republicans say the move is needed to ensure florida is represented at the electoral college 
Democrats say the move is only to ensure the state goes to bush 
The full house is likely to vote on it tomorrow but republican senate leadership may delay a vote there until the supreme court room it's so