[SAJ]

2) The Supreme Court decision stopping the recounts was 7-2, not 5-4 as widely revised. Check it out and check out the reports from when it was given.

Actually, I believe you'll find that the 7-2 vote was on the question of whether the Florida Supreme Court had acted in a Constitutional manner in injecting itself into the dispute (for lack of a better term); they did not, as the USSC so ruled. Of the seven justices concurring, only five agreed that stopping the recount was the proper remedy.

It's never ceased to amaze that the goofball Left still yammers on about the ''5-4 selection of the president''. This decision just was not very complex. In any case, the only other remedy available to the USSC was a 12th Amendment ruling, throwing the question where it really belonged -- into the Florida Legislature. The result would have been the same, certainly; both houses were Republican-majority at the time.

[SAJ]

My apologies. For ''12th Amendment'', please read ''Article II, Section 1, Clause 3''.

Long day, sorry.

[Question_Assumptions]

Fair enough. My point is that there was a 7-2 decision in there that threw a wrench into what the Florida Supreme Court was doing, not just the 5-4 that makes it look like a wholly partisan decision. It makes it easy to argue that it was the dissents that were political.