The first federal court hearings start on Wednesday at 1 p.m. But they will be the last. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Andrew Gillum, who trails by 33,652 out of 8.2 million votes cast, said on Sunday -- while speaking at Tallahassee's Bethel AME Church -- that he may file a court challenge based on the Equal Protection Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which requires equal treatment under law. In this case, that equal treatment is how votes are processed.
There is a precedent for that argument in Florida -- the one U.S. Supreme Court ruling that the justices said should never be cited in another election case. That's Bush v. Gore, stopping the 2000 presidential recount by noting that different Florida counties differently handled counting the vote.
Stay tuned.
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