Bush v. Gore should never-NEVER-have been heard by the Court.
No need. They ignored the prescribed procedure. What the hell gives?
What gives is (short version):
The country is deeply and bitterly divided between incompatible visions of justice and even of reality.
Politicians all (for the most part) have the best jobs they ever will have, and are terrified of offending anyone lest they lose them.
Judges, who cannot lose their jobs, and who have a self-image of wise guardians, are stepping into the policymaking void with their own vision of justice and reality.
The void that judges occupy is created by an abdication of responsibility by elected officials.
The fear that underlies their abdication of responsibility is a fear of schism, even of civil war-which is probably realistic.