The 2000 United States presidential election was the 54th quadrennial presidential election,held on Tuesday,November 7,2000. Republican candidate George W. Bush,the governor of Texas and eldest son of the 41st president,George H. W. Bush,won the election,defeating incumbent Vice President Al Gore. It was the fourth of five American presidential elections,and the first since 1888,in which the winning candidate lost the popular vote,and is considered one of the closest elections in US history,with longstanding controversy surrounding the ultimate results.
Sandra Day O'Connor is a retired American attorney and politician who served as the first female associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006. She was both the first woman nominated and the first confirmed to the court. Nominated by President Ronald Reagan,she was considered the swing vote for the Rehnquist Court and the first five months of the Roberts Court.
Bush v. Gore,531 U.S. 98 (2000),was a landmark decision of the United States Supreme Court on December 12,2000,that settled a recount dispute in Florida's 2000 presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. On December 8,the Florida Supreme Court had ordered a statewide recount of all undervotes,over 61,000 ballots that the vote tabulation machines had missed. The Bush campaign immediately asked the U.S. Supreme Court to stay the decision and halt the recount. Justice Antonin Scalia,convinced that all the manual recounts being performed in Florida's counties were illegitimate,urged his colleagues to grant the stay immediately. On December 9,the five conservative justices on the Court granted the stay for Bush,with Scalia citing "irreparable harm" that could befall Bush,as the recounts would cast "a needless and unjustified cloud" over Bush's legitimacy. In dissent,Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that "counting every legally cast vote cannot constitute irreparable harm." Oral arguments were scheduled for December 11.
Theodore Bevry Olson is an American lawyer,practicing at the Washington,D.C.,office of Gibson,Dunn &Crutcher. Olson served as United States Assistant Attorney General of the Office of Legal Counsel (1981–1984) under President Ronald Reagan and United States Solicitor General (2001–2004) under President George W. Bush.
The 2000 United States presidential election recount in Florida was a period of vote recounting in Florida that occurred during the weeks after Election Day in the 2000 United States presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore. The Florida vote was ultimately settled in Bush's favor by a margin of 537 votes when the U.S. Supreme Court,in Bush v. Gore,stopped a recount that had been initiated upon a ruling by the Florida Supreme Court.
The 2000 presidential campaign of George W. Bush,then Governor of Texas,was formally launched on June 14,1999 as Governor Bush,the eldest son of former President George H. W. Bush,announced his intention to seek the Republican Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 2000 presidential election.
The 2000 presidential campaign of Al Gore,the 45th vice president of the United States under President Bill Clinton,began when he announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States in Carthage,Tennessee,on June 16,1999. Gore became the Democratic nominee for the 2000 presidential election on August 17,2000.
Laurence Henry Tribe is an American legal scholar who is a University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University. He previously served as the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard Law School.
Robert A. Butterworth Jr. is an American attorney and politician from the U.S. state of Florida.
Timothy Elliott Flanigan is an American lawyer and politician. On May 24,2005,President George W. Bush nominated him as Deputy Attorney General of the United States,the second highest position in the Department of Justice. On October 7,2005,his name was withdrawn from consideration. He was replaced by Paul McNulty.
Charles Wainman Burson is a former legal counsel and Chief of Staff to the Vice President of the United States under Al Gore. He assumed the position of legal counsel from Kumiki Gibson in February 1997 after serving almost a decade as Tennessee Attorney General. In 1999 Charles Burson became Gore's Chief of Staff,replacing Ron Klain who resigned in August of that year.
Craig Waters has been the public information officer and communications director for the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee since June 1,1996. He is best known as the public spokesman for the Court during the 2000 presidential election controversy,when he frequently appeared on worldwide newscasts announcing rulings in lawsuits over Florida's decisive vote in the election.
Thomas Charles Feeney III is an American politician from Orlando,Florida. He represented Florida's 24th congressional district. He was defeated in the 2008 election by Democrat Suzanne Kosmas.
The 2000 United States presidential election in Florida took place on November 7,2000,as part of the nationwide presidential election. Florida,a swing state,had a major recount dispute that took center stage in the election. The outcome of the 2000 United States presidential election was not known for more than a month after balloting because of the extended process of counting and recounting Florida's presidential ballots. State results tallied on election night gave 246 electoral votes to Republican nominee Texas Governor George W. Bush and 255 to Democratic nominee Vice President Al Gore,with New Mexico (5),Oregon (7),and Florida (25) too close to call that evening. Gore won New Mexico and Oregon over the following few days;but the result in Florida was to be decisive,regardless of how those two states had voted.
Bush v. Palm Beach County Canvassing Board,531 U.S. 70 (2000),was a United States Supreme Court decision involving Florida voters during the 2000 presidential election. In this case,the U.S. Supreme Court requested clarification from the Florida Supreme Court regarding the decision it had made in Palm Beach County Canvassing Board v. Harris. Shortly after the Florida Supreme Court provided those clarifications on December 11,the U.S. Supreme Court resolved the election in favor of George W. Bush over Al Gore in the case of Bush v. Gore.
John "Jack" Hardin Young is a trial lawyer who has a reputation for work in election law and electoral recounts. He was on the team of lawyers for the Democratic National Committee during the 2000 Florida election recount and the Bush v. Gore case,and is portrayed in the HBO film "Recount". He is widely known for being the first advocate for a statewide recount strategy that could have resulted in a win for Gore.
McPherson v. Blacker,146 U.S. 1 (1892),was a United States Supreme Court case decided on October 17,1892. The case concerned a law passed in Michigan which divided the state into separate congressional districts and awarded one of the state's electoral votes to the winner of each district. The suit was filed by several of these electors chosen in the 1892 election,including William McPherson,against Robert R. Blacker,the Secretary of State of Michigan. It was the first Supreme Court case to consider whether certain methods of states' appointments of their electors were constitutional. The Court,in a majority opinion authored by Chief Justice Melville Fuller,upheld Michigan's law,and more generally gave state legislatures plenary power over how they appointed their electors. The Court held that Article Two of the United States Constitution also constrains the ability of each state to limit the ability of its state legislators to decide how to appoint their electors.
The following is a timeline of the presidency of Bill Clinton,from January 1,2000 to January 20,2001.
537 Votes is an HBO original documentary directed by Billy Corben and released on October 21,2020. The documentary discusses the controversial 2000 United States presidential election in Florida and was released in the run-up to the 2020 United States presidential election. The film premiered at the 2020 GEMS Film Festival.
