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| | Bush v. Gore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Bush argued that the recounts in Florida violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment because there was no statewide standard that each county board could use to determine whether a given ballot was a legal vote. | | | On November 17, the Florida Supreme Court issued an injunction preventing Harris from certifying the election, pending a final ruling of the court. | | | Gore were brought before the court on December 11 by lawyers representing both sides. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore
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| | United States presidential election, 2000 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Gore, and the two cases were then combined, with SCOTUS approving by 6–3 the Florida court's actions in the original case based on the clarifications provided. | | | Gore should not set precedent but should be "limited to the present circumstances". | | | The Court voted 7–2 to end the recount on the grounds that differing standards in different counties constituted an equal protection violation, and 5–4 that no new recount with uniform standards could be conducted. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_2000
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| | FindLaw for Legal Professionals - Case Law, Federal and State Resources, Forms, and Code |
| | Bush does not, of course, claim that any judicial act interpreting a statute of uncertain meaning is enough to displace the legislative provision and violate Article II; statutes require interpretation, which does not without more affect the legislative character of a statute within the meaning of the Constitution. | | | But disagreement with the Florida court's interpretation of its own State's law does not warrant the conclusion that the justices of that court have legislated. | | | That court engaged in permissible construction in determining that Gore had instituted a contest authorized by the state statute, and it proceeded to direct the trial judge to deal with that contest in the exercise of the discretionary powers generously conferred by Fla. Stat. |
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http://caselaw.findlaw.com/scripts/getcase.pl?court=US&vol=000&invol=00-949
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| | Strauss, Bush v Gore: What Were They Thinking? |
| | But the United States Supreme Court, I have argued, was not prompted by a reasoned judgment that the Florida Supreme Court made specific legal errors. | | | But if there is any court of which we should expect it, it is the United States Supreme Court. | | | But the Court’s statement was unnecessary to its decision in the case, and it is unclear why the Court made it, at a time when the lawfulness of the legislature’s proposed action was being hotly contested, unless it meant to suggest a view on that question. |
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http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/sunstein/chapter9.html
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| | JURIST - Kairys: Bush v. Gore Blues |
| | Gore should be challenged by lawsuits, and the courts should invalidate them. | | | Also, while stressing the historical deference to state courts in such matters, he glosses over the fact that members of the (overwhelmingly Democratic) Florida Supreme Court themselves (including the Chief Justice) believed that their court had ruled unconstitutionally in overturning a lower court's ruling on the case. | | | Gore suggested that these noble principles, which they had to resurrect from the Warren Court era because their own rulings undercut voting rights, would be applied only in this case and would therefore be used only to hand this election to George W. Bush. |
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http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/forum/forumnew23.HTM
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| | Cover Story: Bush v. Gore Revisited |
| | Besides, even though Gore’s lawyers thought these wrongs could win the “crispest” legal remedies, these remedies tended to be future-oriented, such as enjoining wrongs in elections to come. | | | After all, in issuing the stay, five justices had decided that Bush’s case had a substantial likelihood of success on the merits. | | | Boies had just one day to prepare for oral arguments, and nobody on the Gore legal team, regardless of whom they thought should argue for them, was very optimistic about his candidate’s chances before the Supreme Court. |
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http://www.dcbar.org/for_lawyers/washington_lawyer/april_2003/bush.cfm
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| | Gore will spawn an explosion of federal lawsuits after every close election, lawsuits arguing that different counties used different ballot designs and voting systems and counted the ballots in different ways. | | | Reno, in which the same five-member conservative majority, led by the addled and uncertain Sandra Day O'Connor, held that federal courts must second-guess each legislative exercise in state and federal redistricting to decide whether or not race was the "predominant purpose" in drawing district lines. | | | Although the justices who handed the election to Bush--O'Connor and Kennedy--were afraid to sign their names, the opinion unmasks them more nakedly than any TV camera ever could. |
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http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/sctsuicide.html
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| | BUSH v GORE - Legal Case Documents |
| | ALBERT GORE, JR., Nominee of the Democratic Party of the United States for President of the | | | In that case, the United States Supreme Court determined that a recount process that allowed for different standards to be applied between (and within) counties violates the Equal Protection Clause of the United States Constitution. | | | Respondents/Appellees BUTLER'S RESPONSE TO ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE Appellant, Matt Butler, in response to this Court's December 19, 2000, Order to Show Cause why this case should not be dismissed as moot, respectfully submits to the Court that this case is NOT moot and should be ruled upon by this Court. |
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http://www.legalcasedocs.com/120/243/610.html
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| | FindLaw Legal News - Lawyer News, Attorney News, Law News, Trial News, Bar News and More |
| | Gore Petition for Writ of Mandamus, Other Writ, or Review of Trial Court Rulings (Fl. | | | After hearing oral arguments, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the Florida Supreme Court's decision and remanded the case back for further proceedings. | | | Petition of Bush and Cheney for Stay of Court's Order Pending Review of Petition for Writ of Certiorari |
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http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/us/election/election2000.html
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| | Will: Bush v. Gore , Ticking Bomb - Newsweek Columnists - MSNBC.com |
| | Gore, to ferret out "equal protection" violations in every closely contested state. | | | Legions of lawyers are poised to litigate all this and much more. | | | In fact, all of life can be considered a violation of the equal protection clause, which is why the clause has traditionally been the Swiss Army knife of liberal jurisprudence, fit for achieving any result, however arbitrary." |
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6262242/site/newsweek
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| | Law.com - The Case That Could Have Altered 'Bush v. Gore' |
| | So, 92 years after it was issued, Marks v. | | | And when there is a perfect balance of harms, the Supreme Court should not pick the winner." | | | Let the Voting -- and Litigating -- Begin |
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1099217129289
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| | MSN Encarta - William Rehnquist |
| | Evans, in which the Court reversed a Colorado constitutional change aimed at curbing civil rights protections for homosexuals. | | | Rehnquist wrote a number of books about legal history. | | | Gore in 2000, the 5-4 Court decision that made George W. Bush the president of the United States. |
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http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761574060/Rehnquist_William_Hubbs.html
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| | Bush v. Gore: A Resolution of Censure |
| | Enterprising Republican lawyers can file future post-Election-Day complaints in federal court. | | | And future justices—of any political persuasion—may feel similar license if the Five remain unchallenged. | | | We dare not assume that President Bush's selection by the Court was a one-time aberration. |
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http://www.censurethefive.org
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| | In Bush v. Gore, Supreme Court Conservatives Brought Disgrace on Their Institution |
| | The bitter irony of this decision, as Bugliosi points out, is that "the equal protection clause... | | | Gore, Supreme Court Conservatives Brought Disgrace on Their Institution | | | Justice Scalia's principal justification for issuing a stay on the Florida recount resumption, permitted by the Florida Supreme Court, was that the recount would "threaten irreparable harm to petitioner (Bush)... |
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http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1209-03.htm
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| | Florida Election Cases - U.S. Supreme Court |
| | Certiorari petition before judgment in No. 00-837, Siegel v. | | | Reply brief for petitioner Bush in No. 00-836 | | | Motion to file certiorari petition in No. 00-837 |
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http://www.supremecourtus.gov/florida.html
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| | Modern Humorist presents My First Presidentiary |
| | What to do in case of a Vice-Presidential heart attack | | | George W. Bush unveils his new campaign slogans | | | My First Presidentiary is Oprah's pick of the month! |
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http://www.modernhumorist.com/bush
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