''Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election 2000'' is a book by Alan Dershowitz. Dershowitz criticized the U.S. Supreme Court's 5–4

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Bush v. Gore ''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, th ...

'', which ended the Florida election recount. Dershowitz also said that the majority justices "shamed themselves and the Court on which they serve, and...defiled their places in history" and called the decision "the most perverse misuse of the

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I've seen in my 40 years of law."

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* Kamiya, Gary
''Against the law''
4 July 2001.

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