Provides the entire chronology of the post-election confusion, including essays and commentary from leading newspaper columnists, political commentators, and law professors, as well as text from the numerous court cases.
Dionne, columnist at the Washington Post and Kristol, publisher of The Weekly Standard disagree about how the election was resolved, and to help save their friendship, assembled the 17 key texts from the landmark legal cases argued in the Florida and US Supreme Courts, and over 60 opinion pieces by journalists and scholars on both sides of the political fence. The comments are arranged chronologically. Only authors and publications are indexed. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
On December 12, 2000, a controversial decision by the Supreme Court of the United States effectively ended the disputed presidential contest between George W. Bush and Albert Gore Jr. with a 5-4 ruling that revealed the court to be as bitterly divided as the electorate.Four days earlier, the Florida Supreme Court had abruptly changed the dynamics of the election by reversing a lower court and ordering hand recounts of "undervotes" statewide. The U.S. Supreme Court quickly stepped in to halt the recounts and agreed to hear Bush v. Gore. After brief oral arguments and a short period of deliberation, the high court reversed the state court decision. The justices in both cases were bitterly divided, and passionate language emerged in both the majority rulings and the dissents.The drama and divisiveness of this extraordinary saga come to life in the rulings, opinions, and dissents from these two cases: U.S. Supreme Court case 00-949 (Bush v. Gore) and Florida Supreme Court case 00-2431 (Gore v. Harris). The first section of this volume gathers the complete text of both rulings, along with selections from oral arguments in the U.S. Supreme Court case.The second section of the book gathers the most significant opinion pieces from journalists and scholars on both sides of the political fence. Selected and organized by political analysts E.J. Dionne and William Kristol, these articles illuminate the perspectives of both sides about the various twists and turns in the post-election campaign, and the landmark judicial intervention. A companion website will provide links to documents from additional legal proceedings and other related documents and writings.The legal and historical significance of the 2000 election will be studied and debated for years to come. This volume combines the most important source documents with the most intelligent opinion and analysis about the conflict and its controversial resolution.
The legal and historical significance of the 2000 election will be studied and debated for years to come. This volume combines the most important source documents from the divisive rulings with the most intelligent opinion and analysis about the conflict and its controversial resolution.
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"A 'must' for students of political science and American electorial history." Midwest Book Review, 4/18/2001
|"Kristol and Dionne's collection stand[ s] up well as an account of the 'outside story' in Florida." Richard Lowry, National Review, 4/19/2001
|"'Bush v. Gore' is essential reading.... It features a wide range of intelligent commentary, from hard-hitting leftist critiques in The Nation, to confused centrist plaints in The New Republic, to jarring conservative responses in The Weekly Standard." Corey Robin, Brooklyn College, SUNY, Newsday, 6/20/2001
|"The editors, who differ on recount questions, have been careful to balance opinions in their column selections." Robert Nardini, Library Journal, 9/24/2001
|"... makes for entertaining and informative reading to see such contrasts in opinion." Kenneth R. Mayer, Congress & the Presidency, 10/1/2001
|"Bush v. Gore [ is] a well-edited, balanced work.... The book collects the principal decisions and varied and thought-provoking views on the main facets of the battle." Steven I. Himelstein, Dorsey & Whitney LLP (Law firm), New York Law Journal, 5/4/2001
Chronology xi Introduction: The Florida Moment 1(8) COURT CASES Advisory Opinion DE 00--10, Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, November 13, 2000 9(2) Advisory Opinion DE 00--11, Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, November 13, 2000 11(1) Advisory Opinion DE 00--13, Florida Department of State, Division of Elections, November 13, 2000 12(2) Advisory Legal Opinion AGO 2000--65, Florida Attorney General, November 14, 2000 14(5) Leon County (Florida) Circuit Court, November 14, 2000 19(5) McDermott v. Harris Palm Beach County Canvassing Board v. Harris, Supreme Court of Florida, November 21, 2000 24(24) Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, Supreme Court of the United States, December 4, 2000 48(5) Leon County (Florida) Circuit Court, December 4, 2000 53(5) Gore v. Harris Supreme Court of Florida, December 8, 2000 58(166) Gore v. Harris A Legislatures Duty from The Wall Street Journal 224(3) John Yoo Rein in the Legislature from the Washington Post 227(2) Peter M. Shane Florida Ballot Spoilage Likelier for Blacks from The Washington Post 229(5) John Mintz Dan Keating First Principles in Florida from The Weekly Standard 234(4) Noemie Emery Gov. Bushs Cynical End-Around in the Florida Legislature from The Boston Globe 238(2) Thomas Oliphant Keep Them Out! from The New York Times 240(2) Bob Herbert W. Stands for Wrongful from The LA Weekly 242(4) Harold Meyerson Double Standard from The Washington Post 246(2) E.J. Dionne Jr. Ghosts in Florida from The Washington Post 248(5) Colbert I. King COMMENTARY DECEMBER 10--13, 2000 A President by Judicial Fiat from The Weekly Standard 253(2) William Kristol Our Robed Masters from The Weekly Standard 255(2) Robert N. Hochman Let the Voters Decide from The Washington Post 257(3) E.J. Dionne Jr. The Equal-Protection Card from The National Review 260(2) Michael Greve The Court Casts Its Vote from The New York Times 262(2) Pamela S. Karlan Left Tells Right: ``Heads I Win, Tails You Lose from The Wall Street Journal 264(2) Randy E. Barnett In Blocking Vote Count, High Court Shows Which Team Its Rooting For from The Los Angeles Times 266(3) Ronald Brownstein Floridas Silver Lining from The American Prospect 269(3) Nicholas Confessore Let the Count Continue from The Washington Post 272(1) Jesse L. Jackson John J. Sweeney No Surprise. Its an Activist Court from The New York Times 273(2) Larry D. Kramer Judicial Activism on Trial from The Washington Post 275(6) George F. Will COMMENTARY DECEMBER 14, 2000... A Place Forever Changed by Indecision 2000 from The Palm Beach Post 281(3) Frank Cerabino Constitutional Crash Landing from The National Review 284(3) Richard A. Epstein So Much for States Rights from The Washington Post 287(2) E.J. Dionne Jr. A Muddled Ruling from The Wall Street Journal 289(4) Michael W. McConnell Partisanship Rules from The Nation 293(1) Eric Foner Supreme Travesty of Justice from The Washington Post 294(2) Mary McGrory Another Kind of Bitter Split from The New York Times 296(3) Linda Greenhouse A Failure of Reason from The New York Times 299(2) Anthony Lewis A Brand New Game from The Washington Post 301(5) Scott Turow A New Voting Rights Movement from The New York Times 306(2) Lani Guinier The Bush Victory from The Weekly Standard 308(3) David Tell The Supreme Court Commits Suicide from The New Republic 311(6) Jeffrey Rosen The Editors Unsafe Harbor from The New Republic 317(2) An Act of Courage from The Weekly Standard 319(2) Nelson Lund Equal Protection Run Amok from The Weekly Standard 321(2) John J. Dilulio Jr. The Real Division in the Court from The Weekly Standard 323(7) Michael S. Greve Eppur Si Muove from The New Yorker 330(2) Hendrik Hertzberg Why the Florida Recount Was Egregiously One-Sided from The National Journal 332(4) Stuart Taylor Jr. Contempt of Court from The American Prospect 336(3) Randall Kennedy What Well Remember in 2050 from The Chronicle of Higher Education 339 Cass Sunstein Harvey J. Mansfield
E.J. Dionne Jr. is a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, cochair of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and a syndicated columnist for the Washington Post Writers Group. William Kristol is editor and publisher of The Weekly Standard.
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