The Florida electoral controversy and the subsequent decisions by the Florida courts and the U.S. Supreme Court left citizens and scholars alike divided over the role of the judiciary in the electoral arena. Now, after a few months of reflection, leading constitutional scholars—Cass R. Sunstein, Richard A. Epstein, Pamela S. Karlan, Richard A. Posner, and John Yoo, among others—weigh in on the Court's actions, which seem sensible, legally legitimate, and pragmatically defensible to some and an egregious abuse of power to others. Representing the full spectrum of views and arguments, these authors offer the most timely and considered guide to the ultimate consequences and significance of the Supreme Court's actions.
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Introduction: Of Law and Politics by Cass R. Sunstein
"In Such Manner as the Legislature Thereof May Direct": The Outcome in Bush v Gore Defended by Richard A. Epstein
Leaving the Decision to Congress by Elizabeth Garrett
Political Judgments by Samuel Issacharoff
The Newest Equal Protection: Regressive Doctrine on a Changeable Court by Pamela S. Karlan
Two-and-a-Half Cheers for Bush v Gore by Michael W. McConnell
Suspicion, or the New Prince by Frank I. Michelman
Democracy and Disorder by Richard H. Pildes
Bush v Gore: Prolegomenon to an Assessment by Richard A. Posner
Bush v Gore: What Were They Thinking? by David A. Strauss
Order without Law by Cass R. Sunstein
In Defense of the Court's Legitimacy by John Yoo
Afterword: Whither Electoral Reforms in the Wake of Bush v Gore by Richard A. Epstein
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