Bush v. Gore Comes Back

This essay originally appeared in The New York Sun.

As if the flames of Bush hatred were not burning brightly enough, the October issue of Vanity Fair seeks to fan them by revisiting Bush v. Gore, one of their original sources, and providing more proof that the U.S. Supreme Court’s momentous opinion was a crude partisan act. The scoop in “The Path to Florida” involves the decision by a number of the law clerks for the dissenting justices – and a few clerks for the more conservative justices – to break their solemn signed vows of confidentiality and speak for the record, though anonymously, about the court’s internal deliberations.