Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the presidential election of 1876, the Democratic candidate (Samuel Tilden) received 50.9% of the popular vote and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I realize that many current law students have no recollection of Bush v. Gore or the events that gave rise to it; many were not ...

PALM BEACH COUNTY, Fla. — Carol Roberts was a Palm Beach County commissioner in 2000 who found herself on the canvassing board. “A canvassing board is a board that's appointed to look at all of the ...

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor took a deft dodge when asked by Judiciary Committee Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin her opinion of the court’s 2000 decision in Bush vs. Gore that awarded the ...

On the night of the 2000 presidential election, as the counting began in a tight race between Texas Gov. George W. Bush and incumbent Vice President Al Gore, it all came down to Florida. And then, all ...

While millions of Americans are headed for the polls today to cast their vote for candidates — from governors to congressmen to city councilmen — there will be no punch marks or levers pulled for ...

Election law experts say that short of a Bush v. Gore scenario, in which a state’s ballot count is disputed, the Supreme Court’s justices are unlikely to wade into postelection litigation. “They’ll do ...

At the end of a lunch at the U.S. Supreme Court recently, Justice David Souter told an old friend: "I'm very grateful that we didn't talk about Bush v. Gore." Souter's comment, recounted by the ...