Article Review: Of Mobs and Machines: Remembering the 2000 Florida Recount in 2004

Article Review: Thugs and Machines: Recall the Florida recalculation in 2004. When I was 14 years old I was anxious and uneasy, I was surprised at the 2000 election. Back then, I think I have a political spirit, and I am much more interested in this problem than my fellow. I understand how things work - in voting, electoral colleges, in every aspect of it - I can see it plays in front of me.

In 2000, a Republican lawyer tried to stop the method of re-aggregation in Florida, developed a wonderful equality protection theory, opposed the method of re-tabulating the voting in Florida's court. Before the election, wise constitutional students did not think there was such an assertion. Once the actual claim is submitted, all wise lawyers (at least in Gore) regard this as a positive loser. However, the Supreme Court acknowledged this claim with a vote of 7 or 2 votes, and thought that the Equality Protection provision states Florida to recount. With this conclusion, the five judges concluded that the recount can not continue. George Bush becomes President

The recounting of the votes in Florida during the presidential election in 2000 was in violation of the Equality Protection Clause because it was used in counties where different count criteria were recounted. This decision effectively solved the elections and backed Republican candidate George W. Bush. Medellin v. Texas, 552 US 491 (2008) The International Convention does not detain domestic law unless Congress establishes the rules to implement these treaties, or unless the Convention is enforced automatically. In addition, the decision of the International Court of Justice is not binding on national law, the President does not have the power to enforce international treaties and decisions of the international court without the approval of Congress or the Constitution.