Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Judicial Motives in American Jurisprudence -- Chapter 2. The Road to Bush v. Gore -- Chapter 3. The U.S. Supreme Court Decides the Election -- Chapter 4. The Dissent Reconstructs Majority Action -- Chapter 5. Reporters Reconstruct the Supreme Court's Action -- Chapter 6. Editorialists Reconstruct Bush v. Gore -- Chapter 7. Scholars Reconstruct the Stay Decision -- Chapter 8. Scholars Reconstruct How the Court Reached Its Decision -- Chapter 9. Scholars Reconstruct Why the Court Reached Its Decision -- Chapter 10. Scholars Reconstruct Who Decided Bush v. Gore -- Chapter 11. Scholars Reconstruct When and Where the Court Reached Its Decision and What It Was Doing -- Chapter 12. Scholars Reconstruct Rehnquist's Concurring Opinion -- Chapter 13. Judging the Supreme Court and Its Judges -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.