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Bush v. Gore, Ticking Bomb; That decision, which need not have been written, is pregnant with enough mischief to plunge the nation into chaos on Nov. 3.
Publication: Newsweek Publication Date: 25-OCT-04 |
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Byline: George Will
On Dec. 12, 2000, the supreme court decided Bush v. Gore, ending the Florida fiasco and guaranteeing George W. Bush's election. Shortly thereafter the conservative National Review, which was pleased by the ruling's consequence but queasy about the reasoning that produced it, issued a warning, the prescience of which might become excruciatingly evident on Wednesday, Nov. 3. Noting that the court's "dubious argument" that standardless, selective hand counts in Florida violated the Constitution's guarantee of "equal protection of the laws," National Review said:
"It is unclear why--with the different vote tabulation systems from county to county, with different levels of accuracy--this line of reasoning wouldn't render Florida's entire electoral system unconstitutional. Or, for that matter, the nation's electoral system....
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