Word: historicization
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The battle of the courts started with the Florida justices, and it's hard to overstate the boldness of their sweeping recount order. American courts have certainly been historic before: ordering public schools to admit blacks in the 1950s and helping oust President Richard M. Nixon by ordering him to...
In 1996 Clinton found a way to expand his environmental role beyond vetoing Republican proposals. Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt introduced him to the glories of the Antiquities Act, which allows the President to declare an area of historic or scientific interest a national monument without having to go through a...
In the wake of its historic 5-4 decision Tuesday night, the Supreme Court has been the target of criticism from pundits and politicians alike. In particular, many have said that the narrow margin by which the court ruled in favor of Texas Gov. George W. Bush will damage its...
A bitterly polarized U.S. Supreme Court effectively ended the presidential hopes of Al Gore '69 last night, reversing a Florida Supreme Court decision to continue recounting votes and drawing to a close the historic legal struggle five weeks after election day.
The fault lines ran every which way as larger states squared off against the smaller ones over the number of votes each member should have, but historic rivalries among the British, French and Germans also limited the extent to which they were willing to present a united front. Germany was...