You can't use the Constitution as an excuse to break the law and that is what Corrupt Florida Judges were doing.
The Florida Legislature appoints the Electors, correct?
In November 2000, that Legislature was in session, with large GOP majorities, and was prepared to overrule SCOFLA and appoint Bush/Cheney electors and transmit their votes to Washington.
Now, it is POSSIBLE that SCOFLA would have tried to illegally appoint Gore/Lieberman electors.
This has happened before, and it could happen again. The Founders certainly anticipated it happening, and prepared for it.
If SCOTUS had stayed out of it, when the Special Joint Session convened on January 3, 2001, it would have had to decide which Electors to count. President of the Senate Al Gore would have undoubtedly ruled for SCOFLA, which ruling would have been immediately appealed to the floor, where there was a Republican majority, each Representative and Senator having one vote.
The floor could have accepted the FLA Legislature’s Electors or it could have rejected both sets. If they accepted the legally appointed Bush/Cheney Electors, it would have ended right there. If they rejected both, no one would have had a majority.
THe two Houses would then have separated, and the House of Representatives would choose a President, voting by States, not by Members. Under those odd rules, California and Wyoming would each have one vote. There were 30 GOP majority State delegations and 20 Democrat majority State delegations, and George W. Bush would have been legally elected 30-20 in an hour.
When the Senate convened to elect the Vice President, the body was divided 50-50 since Jeffords (R-VT) had switched sides. In the event of a tie between Cheney and Lieberman, the President of the Senate Al Gore would cast the tie-breaking vote , and presumably Joe Lieberman would have been elected VP 51-50.
Allowing SCOTUS to take over this process, which had nothing to do with them and was outside of their authority, was a huge mistake. It messaged that the Constitution couldn’t be trusted to function as designed and that elections, which are supposed to be decided on Election Day, could no longer be trusted without special mandarins from Harvard and Yale Law Schools having their say.