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Transcript: Interview: Professor Robert Shapiro discusses the case before the United States Supreme Court regarding the Florida Supreme Court
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- NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday
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- December 3, 2000
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Interview: Professor Robert Shapiro discusses the case before the United
States Supreme Court regarding the Florida Supreme Court
Host: LISA SIMEONE
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
LISA SIMEONE, host:
Also today on the talk show circuit, House Majority Leader Dick Armey
suggested that the country is now in this situation as a result of
the judicial activism of the Florida Supreme Court in extending the
deadline for vote certification in Florida. When courts are asked
to sort out confusing or contradictory laws, there is often debate
over whether the court is simply interpreting a law or whether it'
s being an activist court and making new law. Making laws is, of ...