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Posted on December 8, 2020
How James Baker (Dishonestly) Made George W. Bush President
By Richard Pildes/The Conversation
With Rudy Giuliani flailing through a series of failed election challenges for the Trump campaign, a superb new political biography provides fresh evidence of just how stark the contrast is between the head of Trump’s legal team and George W. Bush’s hyperprepared, efficient and savvy commander-in-chief for the 2000 election political and legal fight, James Baker.
The biography The Man Who Ran Washington, by Peter Baker and Susan Glasser, provides at least three new major revelations, even for those of us election law experts steeped in that 2000 saga, which culminated in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Bush v. Gore decision and Bush’s consequent victory.
Posted on December 4, 2020