Restraining order against Ohio GOP voter registration challenges [US DC]
Miller et al. v. Blackwell et al., United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, Judge Susan J. Dlott, October 27, 2004 [preventing elections boards in six Ohio counties from hearing challenges filed by the Ohio Republican Party...
Why the Supreme Court is Not an Election Issue, and Why It Should Become One
JURIST Contributing Editor William G. Ross of Cumberland Law School at Samford University says that although the US Supreme Court has not been a significant issue thusfar in the current Presidential campaign, the likelihood of Presidential appointments to the Court...
State of Texas v. Westar Energy et al., September 21, 2004 [grand jury indictments against Westar and others for making illegal campaign contributions in 2002 to Texans for a Republican majority, a PAC associated with US House Majority Leader Tom...
JURIST Guest Columnist Mark Brown, holder of the Newton D. Baker/Baker and Hostetler Chair at Capital University School of Law, says today's Democrats should take note of the fact that in electoral contests as elsewhere, two wrongs don't make a...
Bush v. Gore and the Prestige of the Supreme Court: A Self-inflicted Wound?
The Court's authority — possessed of neither the purse nor the sword — ultimately rests on sustained public confidence in its moral sanction. Such feeling must be nourished by the Court's complete detachment, in fact and appearance, from political entanglements...
In past elections, so-called "faithless electors" cast innocuously eccentric votes that provided a quaint reminder of one of the archaic curiosities of the presidential selection process. After providing a rare element of surprise in the otherwise perfunctory Electoral College ritual,...
The most complicated bit of governmental machinery which the modern world has to exhibit is that which is employed in the selection of the chief executive officer...for the United States...It is almost marvelous that any people should have preserved political...
The dispute over the election has developed into a constitutional crisis. With George W. Bush claiming victory and Al Gore refusing to concede, the election's outcome now seems destined to depend on judicial determination of complex and perhaps novel constitutional...
Does the Supreme Court Rush in Where Wise Judges Would Fear to Tread?
The U.S. Supreme Court's intervention in the disputed presidential election was virtually inevitable, despite wishful predictions by Democrats that the Court would not meddle with state election law. As countless commentators have pointed out, the electoral impasse provides yet another...
