The Supreme Court and Election Law: Judging Equality from Baker V. Carr to Bush V. GoreIn the first comprehensive study of election law since the Supreme Court decided Bush v. Gore, Richard L. Hasen rethinks the Court’s role in regulating elections. Drawing on the case files of the Warren, Burger, and Rehnquist courts, Hasen roots the Court’s intervention in political process cases to the landmark 1962 case, Baker v. Carr. The case opened the courts to a variety of election law disputes, to the point that the courts now control and direct major aspects of the American electoral process. |
Contents
The Supreme Court of Political Equality | 14 |
Judicial Unmanageability and Political Equality | 47 |
Protecting the Core of Political Equality | 73 |
Deferring to Political Branches | 101 |
Equality Not Structure | 138 |