The Fourteenth Amendment equal-protection argument with which the federal justices reversed their state-court counterparts in Bush v. Gore, Posner admits, was “not a persuasive one,” technically ...

In early December, 2000, a young lawyer in Washington, D.C., named Gerard Magliocca stopped in front of the Supreme Court building. The question of who had won the Presidential election, on November ...

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The guys at the New York Times, after an exhaustive manual recount of votes cast in Florida in 2000, reported: “the United States Supreme Court did not award an election to Mr. Bush that otherwise ...

Twenty-five years after Florida became the epicenter of one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history, the key figures who lived through the 36-day battle that decided the ...

We are off to a flying start on a momentous year. The Supreme Court will have to decide whether Donald Trump is disqualified from running for president because of the application of Section Three of ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A case with the potential to disrupt Donald Trump’s drive to return to the White House is putting the Supreme Court uncomfortably at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign. In ...

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, as the counting began in a tight race between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and incumbent Vice President Al Gore, it all came down to Florida. And then, all ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A case with the potential to disrupt Donald Trump’s drive to return to the White House is putting the Supreme Court uncomfortably at the center of the 2024 presidential campaign. In ...