"In the first half of this volume gathers what we and the editors at the Brookings Institution Press believe to be the most important legal documents in the Bush-Gore confrontation...The book begins with the early advisory rulings on the recounts by Florida state officials. It moves on to the intermediate court rulings and ends with the critical decisions in early December by the Florida Supreme Court and the United States Supreme Court. We have included...

From election night to the final U.S. Supreme Court decision thirty-six days later, the author chronicles the events of the 2000 presidential election, the reasons behind Bush's victory, and the impact of the election's results.