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Summary: The Official Guide To Sore Losers
Review: This one-sided piece of propaganda is perfect for those who still think George Bush lost Florida to Al Gore. Not to mention that the state was called for Gore before the polls closed, thus making Bush lose many votes in the panhandle. But that's besides the point. If Democrats didn't want the supreme court to "name the president," they shouldn't have kept appealing and crying about hanging chads. Obviously the more they pushed the issue, the higher the court that would hear the arguments. Liberals believe hard statutory deadlines are valid only when the Democrat wins. The popular vote doesn't count. The electoral college does. Read up. That's how it works. Otherwise, why would a candidate even visit the "fly over" Midwest states? He would just campaign in NYC and California. Gore lost the election, lost the recount within seven days, and also lost the third manual recount to the point permitted by law. Then HE (not Bush) had the Florida Supreme Court give him a 4th try which he also lost. The democrats did their own illegal recounts a year into Bush's presidency and couldn't find a way to make their boy win. Someone needs to write a book titled "Get Over It!"
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Summary: From the far LEFT (and maybe Gore's own office)
Review: Unfortunately, this book is another attempt to create more fog around the US Supreme court's decision in Bush v. Gore. Bugliosi limits himself to the decision to end the counting b/c the court held that any additional counting would not meet the FL deadline for the electoral college. He does not discuss the primary issue that when the USCT heard Bush v. Gore the first time, in a unsigned decision, overturned the decision of the FL Supreme court and chastised the court for usurping the authority of the FL legislature. Then when it came back (without the FL court even respond-ing to the USCT) the court voted 7-2 that the FLSCT deci-sion violated Due Process by not establishing one way to determine a vote.However, if you are a Gore fan and still want the taste of red blood, this may be the best book for you. It does go deep into the legal issues involved and may get your blood going again. Recommendation -- if you read this book, also read At Any Cost by Bill Sammon. This will allow you to see both sides and then make your own decision.
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Summary: Judicial Usurpation Unmasked
Review: Vincent Bugliosi earned his legal spurs as a tough prosecutor. The trial that made him famous as a young lawyer was the Manson Case, where he achieved first degree murder convictions against the cult's leader, Charles Manson, and his co-defendants in the most famous post-World War Two Los Angeles courtroom epic until the more recent O.J. Simpson Case. Bugliosi is not known for mincing words, and he is at his acerbic wittiest in "Betrayal of America," writing in angry prose about the tragic injustice rendered by the five members of the U.S. Supreme Court majority in Bush vs. Gore, which handed the election ultimately to petitioner Bush. He accuses the Court majority of circumventing the Constitution and engaging in blind partisanship. He explores the inherent hypocrisy of the majority of using as its legal linchpin the Fourteenth Amendment's due process clause, which these same justices disdained using in instances where minority groups and aggrieved private citizens sought relief in more appropriate circumstances. Bugliosi makes a solid case, his prose ringing with righteous indignation as he calls the Court majority to task for a decision he logically believes was based on blind partisan political considerations, resulting in judicial usurpation of the election process.
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Summary: Basically our right to have our vote counted was denied
Review: Vincent Bugliosi loves our country and for what it has always represented-the people of the United States as a whole. He is outraged that partisan members of the Supreme Court took the right of the citizens of this country, to have their vote counted, away from them. It does not matter who won, it matters that their vote was dismissed and not counted as our constitution says it should be. Also, when you find that over 50,000 people were denied the right to vote because their name was similar to one that was denied because of a prison sentence and that of all those, only about 3,000 were validated and the majority of them were people who were more likely to vote for Gore, then you know there was a gross miscarriage of justice. No one should be denied to vote unless it is positively proven that they should be denied. It doesn't matter which party did this. I would much rather have let those people who shouldn't have voted vote than to deny the rights of the others. This is not something we should get over, this is something that should be looked into and not allowed to happen again. Our constitution should be upheld and the Patriot Act that denies our civil rights should be banned so that our civil rights are not in jeopardy. Fascism (dictatorship) is coming closer to a reality and the people need to put a stop to it. Also, as Bush's brother was governor and Harris, a strong supporter of Bush, they should have arranged a more non-partisan group to oversee the election. And the Supreme Court judges, definitely, should have been non-partisan, but there shouldn't have been any Supreme Court people in the first place.
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Summary: A Must Read for Every American
Review: When the Supreme Court made its ruling regarding the election of 2000, my heart was gripped with icy fear. It mattered ultimately not to me who legitimately (and I strees the word legitimately) won the election, but it scared the daylights out of me that the Supreme Court took it out of the hands of the people of this nation and made me feel that no ones' vote counted for anything. Not being a lawyer, writer and/or orator, I was completely unable to put into words the feelings that I had. Thank God for Vincent Bugliosi. He managed to eloquently put my emotions and beliefs into words - and words, I might add, that are not spouted in legalese. First came his article in "The Nation". Now "The Betrayal of America" which not only includes the origianl article, but also forwards by Molly Ivins and Gerry Spence. Mr. Bugliosi also expounds on his original article. Mr. Bugliosi manages with this article/book to express the feelings that possibly millions of people feel, yet have no idea how to put into words. Unlike some previous reviewers, I don't see Mr. Bugliosi's opinion (as well as mine) at the Supreme Court's decision as liberal rantings, but rather total outrage at the apparent potitical bias of certain Supreme Court Justices and their departure from the Law. As one who has seen Mr. Bugliosi speak on many occassions, he is only about THE LAW. Yes, he may be abrasive and/or sarcastic at times, but that just adds to his credibility to me. He also cites many people who share his beliefs - yes, even noted Republicans (Gasp!) If one completely reads this book (from start to finish), I believe that you will come to the opinion that Mr. Bugliosi's outrage would have been the same if the situation had been completely reversed. I would definately recommed this book for everyone who loves our country and/or has any interest in the law or politics. In my opinion it belongs in every library. Read it, absorb it and contemplate it. You do not have to agree with it, but please read it with an open mind and don't form an opinion unless or until you read the whole book.
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