"This year's postelection battle has blurred the lines between law and politics.... "Perhaps the biggest irony is the fact that a man who says he is a uniter, not a divider, may become president by dividing every conceivable institution in America--the populace, the Florida Legislature, the Florida Supreme Court and now the U.S. Supreme Court," said Yale Law School professor Akhil Reed Amar, author of a book on the Bill of Rights.
L.A. TIMES, 12/11/00
"From the moment Vice President Al Gore broke the most hallowed unwritten rule of American politics -- that the loser concedes on Election Day -- incalculable damage to the body politic and to the civic order of American life was inevitable. It will take generations to register the full negative ramifications of this one greedy and reckless deed.
To sum up for the winning side: In one campaign, Gore has done more damage to American government than our most lawless chief executive, President Clinton, has managed in two administrations. "
SALON.COM 12/11/00
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