2000 Discussion: Who really won Florida's 25 electoral votes

[MarkD]

We'll never know, because the U.S. Supreme Court took away from the election officials of Florida their right to find out who really won.

I've read a total of four books about that recount: Down and Dirty, by Jake Tapper, At Any Cost, by Bill Sammon, Supreme Injustice, by Alan Dershowitz, and The Betrayal of America, by Vince Bugliosi. Tapper's book was the longest, most even-handed, and best-written of those books. I agree with Dershowitz and Bugliosi that the Supreme Court's decision was completely atrocious.

And I was a Republican during the 1990s; I voted a straight Republican ticket in 2000. But the Bush v. Gore decision proved to me that Republicans do not appoint better Supreme Court Justices than the Democrats do.