Bush v. Gore: Exposing the Rising Disaster in American Democracy (Landmark Legislation Instances and American Society)

Who may overlook the Supreme Court docket’s controversial 5-4 determination in
Bush v. Gore or the 2000 presidential marketing campaign and election that preceded it? Hanging chads, butterfly ballots, countless recounts, raucous allegations, and a constitutional disaster have been all roiled right into a complicated and probably harmful mix–until the Supreme Court docket determination allowed George W. Bush to grow to be the forty third President of the USA, regardless of shedding the favored vote to Al Gore.

Praised by students and political pundits alike, the unique version of Charles Zelden’s e-book set a brand new commonplace for our understanding of that monumental determination. A probing chronicle and critique of the vexing and acrimonious affair, it supplied probably the most correct and up-to-date evaluation of a outstanding episode in American politics. Extremely readable, its complete protection, depth of documentation and element, and analytic insights stay unmatched on the topic.

On this third expanded version Zelden affords a strong historical past of voting rights and elections in America since 2000. Bush v. Gore exposes the rising disaster by detailing the quite a few methods during which the unlearned and wrongly discovered “classes of 2000” have impacted American election legislation by means of the expansion of voter suppression by way of laws and administrative rulings, and, offers a transparent warning of how unchecked partisanship arising out of
Bush v. Gore threatens to undermine American democracy typically and the 2020 election particularly.