Bush Vs Gore Essay

The Bush v Gore incident included George W. Bush, Al Gore, U.S. Supreme Court, and the state of Florida. Bush v Gore illustrates the fundamental power of the U.S. Supreme Court. For the first time in U.S. history the president was decided by the Supreme Court. According to Wade Payson-Denney, a journalist for CNN, stated that the election was divided by 537 people out of the six million ballots casted in Florida. Al Gore argued that the margin of error was too close being .009% and the possibility of the ballots being miscounted of six million were pretty high. Al Gore relentlessly pushed for the ballots to be recounted in four counties because one state wasn’t just on the line, the entire election was on the line based off of the 537 vote difference. The controversy was over whether or not the ballots were accurately counted in Florida. The Florida Supreme Court ruled for a manual hand count of all 6 million ballots, but the U.S. Supreme Court stepped
Supreme Court had ever had to deal with because it was down to which president the United states would have for the next four years and most-likely eight years. The Supreme Court denied Florida to manually recounting the ballots because they said that it violated the 14th Amendment and that everyone has the same rights and that recounting ballots didn’t follow Due Process. For a long time the Supreme Court was trying to see how they could challenge the Florida Supreme Court. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the Florida Supreme Court needed to revote on their decision because there was no explanation for their reasoning, but after their decision the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on the issue challenging the state ruling and saying that the manual recount was unconstitutional. This elaborated on how much power the Supreme Court really has. The Supreme Court directly overturned a state's ruling because the judges on the stand disagreed with their