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Category Archives: Bush v. Gore reflections
Joan Biskupic for CNN. … Continue reading
WaPo: Amy Coney Barrett was just three years out of law school, a 28-year-old associate at a boutique Washington law firm, when she was dispatched to Florida to help George W. Bush’s legal team rescue thousands of Republican absentee ballots.The … Continue reading
This is a terrific new paper from Michael Morley (forthcoming, George Mason Law Review), though there are aspects I disagree with. Here is the abstract: The U.S. Supreme Court cautioned in Bush v. Gore that its “consideration is limited to … Continue reading
Op-ed: On December 7, 2000, in the midst of the Florida recount crisis, Florida Senate President John McKay and Speaker of the House Tom Feeney announced that, “the Legislature would choose the electors, as permitted by the U.S. Constitution, if … Continue reading
Timely from History.com. … Continue reading
Check out the Election 2000 Memory Project. … Continue reading
Linda Greenhouse NYT column. … Continue reading
The Daily Beast reports. Gore also offers some thoughts on why he conceded after the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore. … Continue reading
Reporting at CNN. … Continue reading
The Atlantic talks to key players 20 years later. … Continue reading
Stephen Battaglio for the LAT: While it will be a challenge to turn the conventions into compelling television — broadcast networks ABC, CBS and NBC and cable news channels CNN, Fox News and MSNBC will carry live coverage in prime … Continue reading
That’s what the Oregon state legislature is alleged to have done in the strange and fascinating case of the City of Damascus, in which a petition for review is pending before the Oregon Supreme Court. It’s been called the undead … Continue reading
From an extensive interview: TOTENBERG: Ginsburg has learned to take one day at a time. Her work and the court are her passions now, along, of course, with opera, literature and modern art. The reason that she and other justices … Continue reading
I have written this piece for Slate. It begins: The government’s conduct in the pending Supreme Court case about adding a citizenship question to the census has gone from indefensible to outrageous. In the case, which is likely to be … Continue reading
The case is Feehan v. Marcone and the cert petition is here. … Continue reading
New book is “First” by Evan Thomas and here’s the excerpt, courtesy of Mike Sacks: Some behind the scenes detail of Bush v Gore: -O’Connor backfired her bestie Breyer’s bid for Kennedy’s vote -Scalia went along with what he thought … Continue reading
In interview with Adam Liptak: The court’s “second-biggest error,” Justice Stevens said, was the Citizens United campaign finance decision. “Money in politics — it’s hard to believe the extent of it,” he said. The third-biggest mistake, he said, was Bush v. Gore, … Continue reading
Vox interviews Charles Zelden. … Continue reading
Justin Levitt for the HLR Blog. … Continue reading
HuffPost reports. … Continue reading
WaPo column: As the general counsel of Al Gore’s 2000 recount effort in Florida, I’m often asked this question about the Senate and gubernatorial recounts now going on there: Why does “this” keep happening in Florida? Part of what we … Continue reading
From the Court’s opinion: By cosmic coincidence (or curse), it is Bush v. Gore that is most instructive in this Florida recount dispute. It is a foundational tenet of our democracy that “[t]he right to vote is protected in more … Continue reading
Politico: The ghosts of Florida’s botched and aborted 2000 presidential election haunted the state Saturday as officials formally called for three automatic recounts to decide the next U.S. senator, governor and agriculture commissioner. Recounts were also ordered in three legislative … Continue reading
I have written this blog post over at the Harvard Law Review blog. It begins: After waiting, and waiting, and waiting, the United States Supreme Court finally answered the question whether it would heed Pennsylvania Republicans’ calls to put on hold the Pennsylvania Supreme … Continue reading
“We both won the election despite losing the popular vote, though back in my day we didn’t let Russians rig our elections. We used the Supreme Court—like Americans.” —“George W. Bush” (Will Ferrell on SNL). … Continue reading
Monday, December 12 marks the 16th anniversary of Bush v. Gore. There’s not much to celebrate. True, the lines have gotten much better, and in many places the machinery of running elections has improved. But we still have nationally embarrassing … Continue reading
Dahlia Lithwick for Slate. … Continue reading
Zoe Tillman for Law.com. … Continue reading
The LA Times talks to David Boies. … Continue reading
Elie Mystal for ATL. … Continue reading
“Your vote really, really, really counts — a lot. You can consider me as an exhibit A of that group. Now, for those of you who are younger than 25, you might not remember the election of 2000 and what … Continue reading
Via CNN: But electoral politics have long been off-limits for sitting judges, including justices. They are expected to refrain from telling us their opinions — in part because they are expected to be above such considerations but also because they … Continue reading
Michael Kang and Joanna Shepherd have posted this draft on SSRN (forthcoming, Stanford Law Review). Here is the abstract: Bush v. Gore decided the 2000 presidential election and is still the most dramatic election case of our lifetime, but cases … Continue reading
Retro Report/NYT on Bush v. Gore and the rise of the voting wars. … Continue reading
Ned Foley at HNN. … Continue reading
NYT: Mr. Cruz, now a Texas senator and a leading contender for the Republican presidential nomination, rarely invokes the 2000 race and recount. He has largely disavowed the comparatively moderate Bush wing of theRepublican Party in pursuit of conservative ideological … Continue reading
Michael Stern at Point of Order. … Continue reading
This looks to be a great event on Dec. 17 (RSVP): The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and The NAACP Voter Fund present The 2000 Election: Lessons Learned and the Road Ahead for Voting in America 8:30 – … Continue reading
Yesterday I participated in a panel sponsored by ACS regarding the 15th anniversary of Bush v. Gore, with Judith Browne Davis, Curt Levey, and Pam Karlan. Joan Biskupic moderated. It was a great substantive panel with a standing room only … Continue reading
Oped. … Continue reading
[Bumping to the top with news that Curt Levey is joining the panel.] Really looking forward to this event on December 15: Bush v. Gore Fifteen Years Later: The Supreme Court and American Democracy Tuesday, December 15, 2015 12:00 … Continue reading
I have written this post for the ACS Blog: Almost from the moment in December 2000 that the Supreme Court decided its controversial opinion in Bush v. Gore ending the recount in Florida, there has been great debate about whether … Continue reading
Jamie Raskin has written this LA Times oped: Fifteen years after Bush vs. Gore, 15 years after the Supreme Court intervened in a presidential election, a single sentence in the majority opinion remains one of the great constitutional brainteasers in … Continue reading
CNN photo gallery. Saturday is the 15th anniversary of the case. … Continue reading
@UCILaw Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has this post @ACSBlog. … Continue reading
Saturday marks the 15th anniversary of Bush v. Gore, the 2000 case which settled the disputed election in Florida between Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore. I have this oped in the Orlando Sentinel reflecting on what’s changed (and … Continue reading
I have written this oped for the Orlando Sentinel. It begins: This is month marks the 15th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2000 decision in Bush v. Gore, which ended a recount of ballots in Florida, and assured the election … Continue reading
CNN reports, in connection with a show tonight: CNN Chief Political Analyst Gloria Borger revisits the 2000 election in a CNN Special Report, “Bush v. Gore: The Endless Election,” Monday at 9 p.m. ET. … Continue reading
Bob Egelko on a Q&A at Santa Clara: Bush vs. Gore, the ruling that decided the 2000 presidential election and put George W. Bush in the White House, was not a close case or an example of judicial overreaching. “We … Continue reading