Political Science Pol Sci 3403 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Harriet Miers, Executive Privilege, Equal Protection Clause
12 Jun 2016
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Executive branch: bush v. gore, undervotes ballots that had ambiguous votes on them, gore wants the undervotes recounted in all democratic counties in. Florida: bush takes the case to the us supreme court argue that the florida. Supreme court has violated article 2 of the constitution the florida supreme court has taken election law into their own hands, where it should be the state legislature (they"ve taken authority from the state legislature) c. i. The supreme court agrees with bush tells them to follow their state law florida court decides to recount all ballots in the state c. ii. Standard for recount was to examine the discernable intent of the voter: bush argued that the discernable intent violated the 14th. Amendment equal protection clause the standard for discernable intent varied even within precincts wasn"t a standardized method for determining which votes were legal and which should be ignored.
