Dahleen Glanton: With presidential election looming, Supreme Court should take a lesson from Bush v. Gore and pass on questions over Trump's taxes
Nearly two decades ago, George W. Bush asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in a presidential election. Last week, Donald Trump implored the high court to do it again.
In the end, the court effectively awarded victory to Bush in 2000 over his Democratic opponent, then-Vice President Al Gore. The controversial decision ignited outrage and impaired public trust in the court, the only nonpartisan branch of our three-pronged democracy.
Former Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, who cast the deciding vote, suggested
