Well, if any of the members of the SCOTUS had actually agreed that SCOFLAs ruling had been correct he might have a smidgeon of a point. ...Or if upholding the 5-4 SCOFLA opinion wouldn't have meant overturning the 9-0 SCOTUS ruling from a couple weeks before, for no particular grounds. The only benefit to not halting the recounts would have been to give the SCOFLA a couple of hours to redo from the beginning what they had failed to do in several weeks, and would have still resulted in a Bush victory.
Furthermore, regarding WJC's opinion of Bush v. Gore: the SC decision makes it abundantly clear that their judgement was not to be viewed as a precedent but was limited to this specific collection of facts. Thus, WJC must decry the decision precisely because it led to Bush's presidency. [actually, it did no such thing--even if SC had remained silent on the matter, the Florida legislature had already elected a set of electors for the Bush slate]