Paperback Edition: Updated and with a New Foreword
"Superbly organized, with clarity and concision, Greene's book
offers a highly readable, nonpartisan guidebook for those who don't
speak legalese."
--"The National Journal"
"When future historians chronicle the battle of Bush v. Gore,
they'll turn to Understanding the 2000 Election. Greene provides a
clear, sophisticated, and accessible guide through the thicket of
law and politics that surrounded the most surreal Presidential
election of modern times."
--George Stephanopoulos
"Abner Greene is not only an outstanding legal analyst but
agifted storyteller. He has given us an extraordinarily thoughtful,
illuminating and (happily) highly readable account of the various
legal battles fought in the five weeks after the 2000 Election. The
author promises to break down the complexity of the legal issues so
lawyers and nonlawyers alike can follow along--and he succeeds
brilliantly."
--Yale Kamisar, Clarence Darrow Distinguished University Professor
of Law, University of Michigan
"The 2000 presidential election will be remembered as one of the
most astonishing political, legal and constitutional events in
American history. In Understanding the 2000 Election, Abner Greene
traces each step in this extraordinary story with clarity and
insight. With a careful eye for detail, and a generous perspective
that highlights his sense of the good faith of each of the
conflicting participants, Greene offers what will inevitably be a
controversial understanding of these events that reveals the 2000
presidential election as a triumph of law and civility over brute
politics and unprincipled power."
--Geoffrey R. Stone, HarryKalven, Jr., Distinguished Service
Professor of Law, The University of Chicago
aIn an attempt to avoid heated rhetoric . . . Abner Greene's
book . . . offers a simple and straightforward explanation of key
terms in the litigation process, as well as the statutory and
constitutional provisions at issue. It offers no real commentary on
whether any of the court decisions at any level were right or
wrong. Instead, it leaves all analysis of the situation to the
reader. The book is a good step-by-step discussion of this
complicated litigation. . . worthwhile just for its clear and
concise definitions of the terminology that all the election
lawsuits produced.a
--"Law and Politics Book Review"
The nation will not soon forget the drama of the 2000
presidential election. For five weeks we were transfixed by the
legal clashes that enveloped the country from election night to the
Gore concession. It was instant history, and will be studied by
historians, lawyers, political scientists, media critics and others
for years to come.
Even for those who followed the events most closely, the legal
twists and turns of the post-election struggles seemed at times
bewildering. We witnessed manual recounts of election ballots, GOP
federal court lawsuits challenging those recounts, two Florida
Supreme Court opinions, lawsuits over butterfly and absentee
ballots, questions about the role of the Florida legislature and
the United States Congress in resolving presidential election
disputes, and two United States Supreme Court decisions, the second
of which finally handed the election to Bush. Although the 2000
Presidency was decided through much legal wrangling, one should not
have to be a lawyer tounderstand how we came to have Bush rather
than Gore as our President in that hotly contested election.
Understanding the 2000 Election offers an accessible,
comprehensive guide to the legal battles that finally gave George
W. Bush the Presidency five weeks after election night. Meant to
stand next to and clarify the numerous journalistic and personal
accounts of the election drama, Understanding the 2000 Election
offers a offers a step-by-step, non-partisan explanation and
analysis of the major legal issues involved in resolving the
presidential contest. The volume also offers a clear overview of
the Electoral College, its history, what would be involved in
switching over to a direct election, and the likely future of the
Presidential electoral process. While some still decry the 2000
election outcome as the result of political manipulation rather
than the rule of law, Greene shows that almost every legal
conclusion of the post-election struggle can be understood through
the application of legal principle, rather than politics.
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