The Bush versus Gore Crisis

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People went to bed one night thinking that Gore had won, but when they woke up they found out that bush had won with Florida’s twenty-five electoral votes. It happened on November 7, 2000. Bush charged that the recounts in Florida broke the rules of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. A 7-2 majority ruled that the Florida recount was being conducted unconstitutionally. The case was covered in controversy as the Majority versus minority opinion on the redress was split along the lines of the more reactionary justices voting in favor of Bush and the more liberal justices voting in favor of Gore. The minority disunity noted these issues and other including the principle of equality and the conflicting laws which could be interpreted as counterbalancing the December 12 deadline. Bush vs. Gore crisis wasn’t the courts first raid into the principality of emperor making. It was 4:00 P.M. when Bill Schneider said, “It’s going to be a very close call.” It was 48 to 48 on the national popular vote. On December 2000 the Florida Supreme Cou...

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