This guy shouldn't be on the bench anywhere.
Leftists and SFGate homos deliciously repeat falsehoods until they forget they are falsehoods. There was never a chance that the Supreme Court would keep Bush out of the White House. Bush vs. Gore was not one decision, but two. Gore had to win both to have a shot at the Presidency. Of the two, the 5-4 decision ordering a halt to the inane recounts was the sideshow.
The real decision wasn't close. By a vote of 7-2, the Court decided that the Florida Supreme Court was not entitled to change laws duly enacted by the Florida state legislature governing what constitutes a lawfully recordable vote. (Pace the strange new respect shown to States' Rights by Mrs. Ginsburg, USSC review was pretty much inevitable because it was a Federal election.)
The Florida court's position was so laughable, even some of the USSC's Marxists helped to shoot it down. And if unmarked ballots could not be interpreted as unambiguous votes for Gore—as the FSC ordered, in defiance of state election law—Gore had no chance. It didn't matter whether the recount was stopped.
That, incidentally, is why tallies of the ballots made by Lamestream Media reporters after the election all had Bush winning the state.
And .. just to add a little more light to the already great comments:
One year after the 2000 election (as the law provides), several left-wing media outlets pooled their money and petitioned for a recount in Florida. They had to pool their money because it is very costly to have such a thing done.
The recount went forward - and the media was silent about it. After the recount was finished - a teeny, tiny article appeared in the back of the WP. Bush had won FL with over 1500 votes .. not 537. Hmmmm ..?? Looks like the dems were really trying to steal the election.
As you would guess .. most of the public didn’t know anything about it. That’s why the left kept saying Bush stole the election - because they had kept the recount a secret.
One morning while watching FOX, one of the liberal hacks, Bob Beckel, made a comment about “... Bush stole the election”.
I went ballistic in my living room and sat down at my computer and typed out the FACTS - including the little article about the media’s recount. I also took Bob to task for spreading LIES about Bush.
To this day, I cannot stand the sight of Bob Beckel; and I always press MUTE when I see his face.