Title: Truly Judicious
Product review: Unlike every other book published to date on the 2000 election, Richard Posner doesn't write for a partisan faction. Here is the best treatment yet of the Florida debacle, conceding that in all likelihood a majority of Floridians wanted Gore to be President, and that the greatest obstacle placed in their way to realizing that end, that muddle of a butterfly ballot, was placed there by unwitting Democrats. Shorn of the arm-chair second-guessing of judges' motives typical of the post-election talking heads, Posner focuses on the law, its precise language and reasonable interpretation, and the predictable consequences of varied courses of actions. That his treatment will not satisfy the partisan goes without saying; that it will likely prove the best, pragmatic explanation of what in fact happened, why, and what ought to be done about it seems certain.
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