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Bush v. Gore - Wikipedia

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Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), was a decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12, 2000, that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. On December 8, the Florida Supreme Court had ordered a statewide recount of all undervotes, over 61,000 ballots that the vote tabulation machines had missed. The Bush campaign immediately asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the decision and halt the recount. Justice Antonin Scalia, convinced that all the manual recounts being performed in Florida's counties were illegitimate, urged his colleagues to grant the stay immediately.[1] On December 9, the five conservative justices on the Court granted the stay, with Scalia citing "irreparable harm" that could befall Bush, as the recounts would cast "a needless and unjustified cloud" over Bush's legitimacy. In dissent, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that "counting every legally cast vote cannot constitute irreparable harm."[1] Oral

Bush v. Gore - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 2000 U.S. Supreme Court case This article is about the Supreme Court case. For the presidential race with which the case was concerned, see 2000 United States presidential election . 2000 United States Supreme Court case Bush v. Gore Supreme Court of the United States Argued December 11, 2000 Decided December 12, 2000 Full case name George W. Bush and Richard Cheney, Petitioners v. Albert Gore, Jr. and Joseph Lieberman, et al. Docket no. 00-949 Citations 531 U.S. 98 ( more ) 121 S. Ct. 525; 148 L. Ed. 2d 388; 2000 U

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