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Judges said they were "bowled over by Southport in Bloom's passionate dedication", adding that its Botanic Gardens, opened in 1874, "made a lasting impression".

Judges and court staffers “are afraid of speaking out,” said Mary Ann Tally, a judge who retired near the beginning of Newby’s tenure as chief justice when she hit the statutory retirement age.

Judges who cite dictionaries are “not ceding power to lexicographers,” he argued, but simply giving appropriate heft to the text enacted by Congress.

Judges on the constitutional council dismissed eight petitions, citing insufficient evidence of irregularities or a lack of jurisdiction to annul results.

Judges say they were simply applying the law in their handling of each case, and polls show that a vast majority of the French public support them.