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Bush v. Gore

Index Bush v. Gore

Bush v. Gore,, was a decision of the United States Supreme Court that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election. [1]

88 relations: Adam Cohen (journalist), Al Gore, Alan Dershowitz, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia, Antonin Scalia Law School, Arizona, Article Two of the United States Constitution, Ballot, Broward County, Florida, Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, Certiorari, Chad (paper), Chapman University School of Law, Charles Fried, Clarence Thomas, Concurring opinion, Conflict of interest, Consortium, David Boies, David Souter, Democratic Party (United States), Dick Cheney, Electoral College (United States), Electoral Commission (United States), Equal Protection Clause, Faithless elector, Florida circuit courts, Florida District Courts of Appeal, Florida Legislature, Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Geoffrey R. Stone, George W. Bush, Harvard University, HBO, Hypothesis, Irreparable injury, Jeffrey Toobin, Joe Lieberman, John Paul Stevens, Judicial disqualification, Katherine Harris, Louise Weinberg, Manchester Grammar School, Merit (law), Miami–Dade County, Florida, Michael W. McConnell, New York (state), Oral argument in the United States, Overvote, ..., Oyez Project, Palm Beach County, Florida, Per curiam decision, Peter Berkowitz, Plurality voting, Political question, Presidency of George W. Bush, Recount (film), Republican Party (United States), Retro Report, Ronald Rotunda, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Safe harbor (law), Sandra Day O'Connor, Secretary of State of Florida, Solicitor General of the United States, Southern Reporter, Statistician, Stay of execution, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court of Florida, Supreme Court of the United States, The Nation, The New York Times, Theodore Olson, Title 3 of the United States Code, United States Armed Forces, United States Constitution, United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida, United States presidential election in Florida, 2000, United States presidential election, 2000, Vincent Bugliosi, Volusia County, Florida, Voting machine, Washington, D.C., William M. Daley, William Rehnquist, 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida. Expand index (38 more) »

Adam Cohen (journalist)

Adam Cohen (born c. 1962) is an American journalist, author, lawyer, and former assistant editorial page editor of The New York Times.

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Al Gore

Albert Arnold Gore Jr. (born March 31, 1948) is an American politician and environmentalist who served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993 to 2001.

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Alan Dershowitz

Alan Morton Dershowitz (born September 1, 1938) is an American lawyer and academic.

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Anthony Kennedy

Anthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) is the senior Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Antonin Scalia

Antonin Gregory Scalia (March 11, 1936 – February 13, 2016) was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2016.

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Antonin Scalia Law School

Antonin Scalia Law School, previously George Mason University School of Law, is the law school of George Mason University, a state university in Virginia, United States.

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Arizona

Arizona (Hoozdo Hahoodzo; Alĭ ṣonak) is a U.S. state in the southwestern region of the United States.

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Article Two of the United States Constitution

Article Two of the United States Constitution establishes the executive branch of the federal government, which carries out and enforces federal laws.

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Ballot

A ballot is a device used to cast votes in an election, and may be a piece of paper or a small ball used in secret voting.

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Broward County, Florida

Broward County is a county in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board

Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board, 531 U.S. 70 (2000), was a United States Supreme Court decision involving Florida voters during the 2000 presidential election.

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Certiorari

Certiorari, often abbreviated cert. in the United States, is a process for seeking judicial review and a writ issued by a court that agrees to review.

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Chad (paper)

Chad refers to fragments sometimes created when holes are made in a paper, card or similar synthetic materials, such as computer punched tape or punched cards.

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Chapman University School of Law

Chapman University's Dale E. Fowler School of Law, commonly referred to as Chapman University School of Law or Chapman Law School, is a private, non-profit law school located in Orange, California.

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Charles Fried

Charles Fried (born April 15, 1935) is an American jurist and lawyer.

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Clarence Thomas

Clarence Thomas (born June 23, 1948) is an American judge, lawyer, and government official who currently serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Concurring opinion

In law, a concurring opinion is in certain legal systems a written opinion by one or more judges of a court which agrees with the decision made by the majority of the court, but states different (or additional) reasons as the basis for his or her decision.

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Conflict of interest

A conflict of interest (COI) is a situation in which a person or organization is involved in multiple interests, financial or otherwise, and serving one interest could involve working against another.

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Consortium

A consortium is an association of two or more individuals, companies, organizations or governments (or any combination of these entities) with the objective of participating in a common activity or pooling their resources for achieving a common goal.

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David Boies

David Boies (born March 11, 1941) is an American lawyer and chairman of the law firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner.

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David Souter

David Hackett Souter (born September 17, 1939) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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Dick Cheney

Richard Bruce Cheney (born January 30, 1941) is an American politician and businessman who served as the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Electoral College (United States)

The United States Electoral College is the mechanism established by the United States Constitution for the election of the president and vice president of the United States by small groups of appointed representatives, electors, from each state and the District of Columbia.

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Electoral Commission (United States)

The Electoral Commission was a temporary body created by Congress to resolve the disputed United States presidential election of 1876.

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Equal Protection Clause

The Equal Protection Clause is part of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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Faithless elector

In United States presidential elections, a faithless elector is a member of the United States Electoral College who does not vote for the presidential or vice-presidential candidate for whom they had pledged to vote.

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Florida circuit courts

The Florida circuit courts are state courts, and are trial courts of original jurisdiction for most controversies.

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Florida District Courts of Appeal

The Florida District Courts of Appeal (DCAs) are the intermediate appellate courts of the Florida state court system.

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Florida Legislature

The Florida Legislature is the Legislature of the U.S. State of Florida.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution

The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted on July 9, 1868, as one of the Reconstruction Amendments.

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Geoffrey R. Stone

Geoffrey R. Stone (born 1946) is an American law professor and noted First Amendment scholar.

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George W. Bush

George Walker Bush (born July 6, 1946) is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States from 2001 to 2009.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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HBO

Home Box Office (HBO) is an American premium cable and satellite television network of Home Box Office, Inc..

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Hypothesis

A hypothesis (plural hypotheses) is a proposed explanation for a phenomenon.

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Irreparable injury

An irreparable injury is, in equity, "the type of harm which no monetary compensation can cure or put conditions back the way they were.".

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Jeffrey Toobin

Jeffrey Ross Toobin (born May 21, 1960) is an American lawyer, blogger, author and pundit, and legal analyst for CNN and The New Yorker.

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Joe Lieberman

Joseph Isadore Lieberman (born February 24, 1942) is an American politician and attorney who was a United States Senator for Connecticut from 1989 to 2013.

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John Paul Stevens

John Paul Stevens (born April 20, 1920) is an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1975 until his retirement in 2010.

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Judicial disqualification

Judicial disqualification, also referred to as recusal, is the act of abstaining from participation in an official action such as a legal proceeding due to a conflict of interest of the presiding court official or administrative officer.

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Katherine Harris

Katherine Harris (born April 5, 1957) is an American politician, elected in 1998 as Secretary of State of Florida and in 2002 to the United States House of Representatives from Florida.

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Louise Weinberg

Louise Weinberg is Professor of Law at the University of Texas School of Law in Austin, Texas, where she holds the endowed William B. Bates Chair for the Administration of Justice (formerly held by Charles Alan Wright).

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Manchester Grammar School

The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is the largest independent day school for boys in the United Kingdom (ages 7–18) and is located in Manchester, England.

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Merit (law)

In law, Merits (Old French merite, reward, moral worth) is the inherent rights and wrongs of a legal case, absent of any emotional or technical biases.

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Miami–Dade County, Florida

Miami-Dade County is a county located in the southeastern part of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Michael W. McConnell

Michael William McConnell (born May 18, 1955 in Louisville, Kentucky) is a constitutional law scholar who served as a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit from 2002 until 2009.

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New York (state)

New York is a state in the northeastern United States.

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Oral argument in the United States

Oral arguments are spoken to a judge or appellate court by a lawyer (or parties when representing themselves) of the legal reasons why they should prevail.

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Overvote

An overvote occurs when one votes for more than the maximum number of selections allowed in a contest.

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Oyez Project

The Oyez Project at the Illinois Institute of Technology's Chicago-Kent College of Law is an unofficial online multimedia archive of the Supreme Court of the United States, especially audio of oral arguments.

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Palm Beach County, Florida

Palm Beach County is a county in the state of Florida that is directly north of Broward County.

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Per curiam decision

In law, a per curiam decision (or opinion) is a ruling issued by an appellate court of multiple judges in which the decision rendered is made by the court (or at least, a majority of the court) acting collectively (and typically, though not necessarily, unanimously).

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Peter Berkowitz

Peter Berkowitz (born 1959) is an American political scientist, a former law professor, the Tad and Dianne Taube Senior Fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution.

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Plurality voting

Plurality voting is an electoral system in which each voter is allowed to vote for only one candidate, and the candidate who polls the most among their counterparts (a plurality) is elected.

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Political question

In American Constitutional law, the political question doctrine is closely linked to the concept of justiciability, as it comes down to a question of whether or not the court system is an appropriate forum in which to hear the case.

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Presidency of George W. Bush

The presidency of George W. Bush began at noon EST on January 20, 2001, when George W. Bush was inaugurated as 43rd President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 2009.

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Recount (film)

Recount is a 2008 television film about the 2000 United States presidential election.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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Retro Report

Retro Report is a non-profit news organization that produces mini documentaries looking back on the biggest stories from the past to see how they affect today's news.

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Ronald Rotunda

Ronald D. Rotunda (February 14, 1945 — March 14, 2018) was a U.S. legal scholar and professor of law at Chapman University School of Law.

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Ruth Bader Ginsburg (born Joan Ruth Bader; March 15, 1933) is an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Safe harbor (law)

A safe harbor is a provision of a statute or a regulation that specifies that certain conduct will be deemed not to violate a given rule.

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Sandra Day O'Connor

Sandra Day O'Connor (born March 26, 1930) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, having served from her appointment in 1981 by Ronald Reagan until 2006.

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Secretary of State of Florida

The Secretary of State of Florida is a constitutional officer of the state government of the U.S. state of Florida, established by the original 1838 state constitution.

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Solicitor General of the United States

The United States Solicitor General is the fourth-highest-ranking official in the U.S. Department of Justice.

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Southern Reporter

The Southern Reporter, the Southern Reporter Second, and the Southern Reporter Third are United States regional case law reporters.

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Statistician

A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics.

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Stay of execution

A stay of execution is a court order to temporarily suspend the execution of a court judgment or other court order.

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Stephen Breyer

Stephen Gerald Breyer (born August 15, 1938) is an American lawyer, professor, and jurist who serves as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.

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Supreme Court of Florida

The Supreme Court of Florida is the highest court in the U.S. state of Florida.

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Supreme Court of the United States

The Supreme Court of the United States (sometimes colloquially referred to by the acronym SCOTUS) is the highest federal court of the United States.

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The Nation

The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States, and the most widely read weekly journal of progressive political and cultural news, opinion, and analysis.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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Theodore Olson

Theodore Bevry Olson (born September 11, 1940) is an American lawyer, practicing at the Washington, D.C. office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.

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Title 3 of the United States Code

Title 3 of the United States Code outlines the role of the President of the United States in the United States Code.

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United States Armed Forces

The United States Armed Forces are the military forces of the United States of America.

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United States Constitution

The United States Constitution is the supreme law of the United States.

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United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida

The United States District Court for the Northern District of Florida (in case citations, N.D. Fla.) is a federal court in the Eleventh Circuit (except for patent claims and claims against the U.S. government under the Tucker Act, which are appealed to the Federal Circuit).

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United States presidential election in Florida, 2000

The 2000 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 7, 2000, as part of the nationwide presidential election.

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United States presidential election, 2000

The United States presidential election of 2000 was the 54th quadrennial presidential election.

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Vincent Bugliosi

Vincent T. Bugliosi, Jr. (August 18, 1934 – June 6, 2015) was an American attorney and New York Times bestselling author.

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Volusia County, Florida

Volusia County is located in the east-central part of the U.S. state of Florida, stretching between the St. Johns River and the Atlantic Ocean.

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Voting machine

A voting machine is a machine used to register and tabulate votes.

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Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.

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William M. Daley

William Michael Daley (born August 9, 1948) is an American lawyer and former banker.

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William Rehnquist

William Hubbs Rehnquist (October 1, 1924 – September 3, 2005) was an American lawyer and jurist who served on the Supreme Court of the United States for 33 years, first as an Associate Justice from 1972 to 1986, and then as the 16th Chief Justice of the United States from 1986 until his death in 2005.

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2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida

The Florida election recount of 2000 was a period of vote recounting in Florida that occurred during the weeks after Election Day in the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_v._Gore

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