Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the presidential election of 1876, the Democratic candidate (Samuel Tilden) received 50.9% of the popular vote and the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. On Dec. 12, 2000, the Supreme Court effectively decided that George W. Bush would become president — the judicial equivalent of a ...

Author James Rosen joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'Scalia: Supreme Court Years, 1986 to 2001'.

While millions of Americans are headed for the polls today to cast their vote for candidates — from governors to congressmen to city councilmen — there will be no punch marks or levers pulled for ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor suggested last week that the high court should have stayed out of the 2000 presidential election dispute between George W. Bush and Al Gore. "It took ...

At the end of a lunch at the U.S. Supreme Court recently, Justice David Souter told an old friend: "I'm very grateful that we didn't talk about Bush v. Gore." Souter's comment, recounted by the ...

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor took a deft dodge when asked by Judiciary Committee Sen. Herb Kohl of Wisconsin her opinion of the court’s 2000 decision in Bush vs. Gore that awarded the ...

The ballot with Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore, used in West Palm Beach, Fla., during the 2000 presidential election, is loaded on a voting machine on display during an open house and ...

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