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

Gillman, Howard

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ISBN 10: 0226294072 ISBN 13: 9780226294070

Casa editrice: Univ of Chicago Pr, 2001

Riassunto

A comprehensive yet critical assessment of the 2000 presidential campaign focuses on how the courts decided to end this historic and tense political standoff.

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L'autore:

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

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

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. InThe 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.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Chicago Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0226294072
• ISBN 13: 9780226294070
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 301