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The Votes That Counted : How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election
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The Votes That Counted : How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election Hardcover - 2001

by Gillman, Howard

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  • Title The Votes That Counted : How the Court Decided the 2000 Presidential Election
  • Author Gillman, Howard
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition [ Edition: first
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 325
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
  • Date October 15, 2001
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 8210328-6
  • ISBN 9780226294070 / 0226294072
  • Weight 1.33 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.33 x 6.25 x 1.09 in (23.70 x 15.88 x 2.77 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Contested elections - United States - History, Presidents - United States - Election - 2000
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2001003077
  • Dewey Decimal Code 324.973

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U.S. courts have been at the center of many high-stakes political disputes.

From the rear cover

The dramatic struggle over the outcome of the 2000 presidential election presented judges with an extraordinary political challenge as well as a historic political temptation. In The Votes That Counted Howard Gillman offers a comprehensive yet critical assessment of how courts coped with the competing expectations for impartial justice and favorable results.

Lively and authoritative, the book documents how the participants, the press, the academic community, and the public responded during these tension-filled thirty-six days. Gillman also provides a serious yet accessible overview of the legal strategies and debates-from briefs and oral arguments to final decisions. However, in explaining the behavior of courts, he moves beyond an analysis of law to also take into account the influences of partisanship, judicial ideology, and broader political and historical contexts.

Appropriately, Gillman pays special attention to the judges whose behavior generated the most controversy-the battling justices of the Florida and United States Supreme Courts. After carefully reviewing the arguments for and against their decisions, he concludes that the five justices behind the Bush v. Gore decision acted outside what should be considered the acceptable boundaries of judicial power. Gillman ends with an analysis of why they chose such an unprecedented course of action and an assessment of whether their partisan intervention will have any lasting effect on the Supreme Court's reputation and authority.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 10/01/2001, Page 271
  • Library Journal, 10/15/2001, Page 95
  • Publishers Weekly, 09/24/2001, Page 81
  • Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2002, Page 24

About the author

Howard Gillman is an associate professor of political science at the University of Southern California. He is the author of The Constitution Besieged, winner of the Pritchett Award for best book in public law, and the editor (with Cornell Clayton) of Supreme Court Decision-Making, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

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