Foreword
The U.S. Supreme Court is usually the least talked about and least understood branch of the Federal Government. The 2000 presidential election, however, put the Court at the center of the most significant electoral controversy of our time.After two machine counts of Florida’s election returns, Republican George W. Bush led Democrat Albert Gore, Jr., by a few hundred votes potentially giving Bush the State whose electoral votes would decide the next U.S. President.Following the certification of the Florida election giving Bush a 537-vote victory, Gore contested the results under Florida election law. He alleged the certified results should include…