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Article: Court rebounds from Bush v. Gore: Watermark case of '01 term did not diminish justices in public's eyes. But legal analysts still stew.(USA)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- July 2, 2001
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Byline: Warren Richey Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor
WASHINGTON -- In his stinging dissent in the Bush v. Gore decision last December, Justice John Paul Stevens warned of potentially grave damage to the stature of the US Supreme Court. The real loser, he wrote, is "the nation's confidence in the judge as an impartial guardian of the rule of law."
The justices' controversial intervention into the presidential election - virtually guaranteeing a Bush victory - cast a pall over the court's 2000-01 term.
Nonetheless, public confidence in the nation's highest court has rebounded. A recent Gallup poll found that 62 percent of ...