Gore v. Bush (2000 Election)

Gore is an amazing, intelligent person that scares the American people with his ability to effect real change. Go figure the results.

This was a Coup. What was almost as bad was the fact that three Justices, who either benefited themselves, or family, didn't recuse themselves, as is supposed to be the custom. Sandra Day O'Conner was on the record as saying she was going to retire as soon as there was a Republican President.

It was a coup. Plain and simple.

Conservative activism at it's worse. The only thing more hypocritical were Stevens and Ginsberg's dissents claiming judicial restraint. Stevens and Ginsberg usually expand the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause to include any imaginable right under the sun but in this case we were talking about Bush's right's and privileges. Scalia, Thomas and Rehnquist ruling that this was an equal protection problem encompassing the rights and privileges granted by the 14th Amendment is equally as humerous in light of their strict-constructionist view of the Amendment. In reality this was the Court playing politics trumping the egregious and embarrassing rulings of the Florida Supreme Court that was extending explicit deadline stated in law, allowing for cherry picking recounts to occur in highly Democratic districts and selective counts of under-votes to occur. This election should have been decided by the House of Representatives not the courts. And the legislature in Florida should hav... Read more

While I'm glad Gore was prevented from stealing the election with a 7-2 decision, but I wonder about the 5-4 ruling on equal protection. This is opening a pandora's box, especially if '04 was close.

I'm not sure about this one. While I think the best man won, and I think the electoral college was applied correctly, I'm still wavering on whether or not this was a decision the Court has the right to make. A writer and attorney I respect tremendously, Vincent Bugliosi (prosecuted Charles Manson, wrote Helter Skelter detailing that case, and also lambasted the prosecutors of OJ Simpson in his book Outrage) has written a book bashing the court for this particular decision. I trust Bugliosi, and he is no Liberal nor a Gore supporter. I'd love to learn more about this decision.

Sorry but to get the facts straight, Gore would have won Florida's electoral votes if the votes were recounted. An independent recount by the press proved this. This was possibly the worst squash of justice in history, in which Scalia, Thomas, Renquist, Kennedy and O'Connor greatly abused their power to make Dubya the president.

Thank God the Constitution was upheld on this one. Can you imagine Gore being in office during 9-11? He probably would have told Afghanistan Thank you, I know we deserved that, rather than (as George W. put it) Terrorist acts in America will not stand. When talking to one of my advisors at school right after 9-11, he said to me Can you imagine how things would be if Gore was president? Man, I'd be hiding in the side of a mountain right now. God bless America and George W.

Did I want Bush to win the election? No. Although I was too young to vote, I still sided with Gore on most issues. Gore won the popular vote, and I have long since been an advocate of doing away with the Electoral College. However, our system, as established in the Constitution, says that the Electoral College decides elections, not the popular vote. Therefore, the Supreme Court did its job in upholding the law. I do not agree personally with the decision, but the law says that Bush did indeed win the election.