How did the Court assert the power of judicial review in the Bush v. Gore case of 2000?
In Bush v. Gore, 531 US 98 (2000) George W. Bush was the petitioner; Al Gore was the respondent. The case involved manual ballot recounts in the State of Florida following the 2000 Presidential Election.
Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist presided over the Court in 2000. President Nixon appointed Rehnquist to the Supreme Court as an Associate Justice in 1972, and President Reagan elevated him to Chief Justice in 1986. Rehnquist lead the Court until his death in 2005.
The 15th amendment
Florida
They believed that the Court's conservative majority ruled in favor of Bush because of his conservative views
President George W. Bush in Bush v. Gore,(2000).
If a case goes before the Supreme Court the 14th can be used to make a decision about the new case. It was used in Brown v Board of Education, Roe v Wade, Bush v Gore, overruled Dred Scott v Sandford.
Docket (case) number: 00-949Citation for the case: Bush v. Gore, 531 US 98 (2000)Argued: December 11, 2000Decided: December 12, 2000Decision: 5-4, Bush, Per CuriamFor more information, see Related Questions, below.
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