Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, I ask you to smell the defendant.

Oh sure, like lawyers working big skyscrapers and have secretaries, and look at him, he's wearing a belt.

That's Hollywood for you.

Please answer the question, does the defendant's case hold water?

No, the defense is wrong.

Objection overrule.

Oh no no no, no I'm a strener's lip check.

Oh wow, a strener's lip check and I can take some time to reconsider.

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Hello and welcome to opening arguments, this is Episode 5, and this is the final part of Bush V-Gor.

Now if you didn't like the fact that we had to break this up into four parts, feel free to go to patreon.com slash law and pledge today.

There's a goal that we're pretty close to where we'll do an hour per episode rather than a half hour,

and that will allow us to get further in the story each week.

But in the meantime, let's get to the final part of Bush V-Gor.

So where did we leave off Andrew?

So now your Al Gore's campaign manager again, you had a nice hiatus, but you're stuck here in Florida.

What do you think you can do now that the Secretary of State has said you've lost by 537 votes,

and you know that your major county, Miami-Dade County, did not certify any extra votes for you,

because they couldn't get the whole recount done in time.

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