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Bush Vs. Gore

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  • US Supreme Court
  • Dec 11, 2000

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  1. Reynolds Vs. Sims US Supreme Court · Jun 15, 1964
  2. Marbury Vs. Madison US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1803
  3. Mcpherson Vs. Blacker US Supreme Court · Jan 01, 1892
  4. Gray Vs. Sanders US Supreme Court · Mar 18, 1963
  5. Mullaney Vs. Wilbur US Supreme Court · Jun 09, 1975
  6. Smiley Vs. Holm US Supreme Court · Apr 11, 1932
  7. Leser Vs. Garnett US Supreme Court · Feb 27, 1922
  8. U.S. 98 (2000) October Term, 2000 Syllabus Bush Et Al. V. Gore
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  9. may not, by later arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over that of another. See, e. g., Harper v. Virginia
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  10. Gore in Palm Beach County was 176 votes, and directed the Circuit Court to resolve that dispute on remand. Gore v. Harris
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  11. p. 1046. The proceedings leading to the present controversy are discussed in some detail in our opinion in Bush v. Palm
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  12. the Florida Supreme Court issued a decision on remand reinstating that date. Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris
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  13. Supreme Court. Accepting jurisdiction, the Florida Supreme Court affirmed in part and reversed in part. Gore v. Harris
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  14. This is the source for the statement in McPherson v. Blacker
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  15. arbitrary and disparate treatment, value one person's vote over that 105 of another. See, e. g., Harper v. Virginia
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  16. jurisprudence arose when a State accorded arbitrary and disparate treatment to voters in its different counties. Gray v. Sanders
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  17. constitutional violation. We relied on these principles in the context of the Presidential selection process in Moore v. Ogilvie
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  18. results from the truncated contest period established by the Florida Supreme Court in Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris
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  19. see also Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris
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  20. We deal here not with an ordinary election, but with an election for the President of the United States. In Burroughs v. United
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  21. Likewise, in Anderson v. Celebrezze
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  22. the decisions of state courts are definitive pronouncements of the will of the States as sovereigns. Cf. Erie R. Co. v. Tompkins
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  23. and not just its interpretation by the courts of the States, takes on independent significance. In McPherson v. Blacker
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  24. and if the selection process is completed six days prior to the meeting of the electoral college. As we noted in Bush v. Palm
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  25. of the court. Though we generally defer to state courts on the interpretation of state law-see, e. g., Mullaney v. Wilbur
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  26. this Court to undertake an independent, if still deferential, analysis of state law. For example, in NAACP v. Alabama
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  27. Id., at 457. Six years later we decided Bouie v. City
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  28. be concluded by a state supreme court holding that state property law accorded the plaintiff no rights. See Lucas v. South
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  29. made an independent evaluation of state law in order to protect federal treaty guarantees. In Fairfax's Devisee v. Hunter's
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  30. Hunter v. Fairfax's
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  31. Cf. Boardman v. Esteva
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  32. of election controversies. In its first decision, Palm Beach Canvassing Bd. v. Harris
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  33. Supreme Court reissued the same judgment with a new opinion on December 11, 2000, Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris
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  34. of the contest phase. 120 although it must defer to the Secretary's interpretations, see Krivanek v. Take
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  35. Fla. 1993), rejected her reasonable interpretation and embraced the peculiar one. See Palm Beach County Canvassing Bd. v. Harris
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  36. was, as Chief Justice Wells pointed out in his dissent in Gore v. Harris
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  37. should have been examined to determine voter intent. Tr. of Oral Arg. in Bush v. Palm
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  38. cf. Broward County Canvassing Board v. Hogan
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  39. Bush v. Palm
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  40. Supreme Court has on occasion taken over a year to resolve disputes over local elections, see, e. g., Beckstrom v. Volusia
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  41. of, and constrained by, their state constitutions. Lest there be any doubt, we stated over 100 years ago in McPherson v. Blacker
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  42. cf. Smiley v. Holm
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  43. S. Term Limits, Inc. v. Thornton
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  44. Article v. simply
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  45. calls on the legislative body to deliberate upon a binary decision. As a result, petitioners' reliance on Leser v. Garnett
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  46. U. S. 130 (1922), and Hawke v. Smith
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  47. tion when individual votes within the same State were weighted unequally, see, e. g., Reynolds v. Sims
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  48. g) (1999). 3 Cf. Victor V. Nebraska
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  49. Bain Peanut Co. of Tex. v. Pinson
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  50. Siegel v. LePore
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