Bush vs. Gore: What Has Been the Corrosive Effect on the Law? 
[Cross-posted at The Left Coaster and Booman Tribune]
Six days from now--December 9th--is the five year anniversary of the day I mournfully rhyme with Don McLean's famous song American Pie: the day the country died. That's the day, of course, when the Supreme Court decided to hear Bush vs. Gore and issued the stay on the Florida election, stealing the election for Bush.
Theft of the democracy and the utterly disastrous Bush presidency (9/11, the Iraq war, crippling deficits, horrible employment, widening class chasm, environmental degradation) has been a disgraceful painful consequence, but the day the country died I was equally horrified at the pernicious effects Bush vs. Gore would have on the very concept of the law itself.
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