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Baker v Carr Bush V Gore
The Fourteenth Amendment
The Equal Protection Clause
States’ election laws
Slide2Baker v Carr 1962
Tennessee had failed to reapportion the state legislature for 60 years
Baker, a voter, brought suit against the state (Joe Carr was a state official in charge of elections) in federal district court, claiming that the dilution of his vote as a result of the state's failure to reapportion violated the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution.
Slide3The Supreme Court
agreed with Baker that his rights had been violated under the equal protection clauseEven though the case concerned state leg, it led to reapportionment of congressional districts“one man one vote” became the synopsis of the case
Slide4Bush v Gore 2000
At issue was the recount of the ballots in two counties in FloridaElectoral College meets Dec 15 to elect President-time constraint
Slide5Slide6Because the ballots were not standardized the court ruled that the recount must stop
Governor Bush was awarded Florida’s electoral votes based on the original tally and therefore received the 270 voted need to become President
Slide7Both cases involved the Equal
Protection Clause of Amend. 14Both involved state election laws, not federal concerns
http://www.oyez.org/cases/2000-2009/2000/2000_00_949
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