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Who can tell me what would have happened, if the Supreme Court didn't step in, during the 2000 election?
I'm talking about procedurally. Democrats were suing, with an army of lawyers. Republicans were suing to stop what it considered an effort to steal the election, through voter fraud/tampering, "found" votes, etc.
But what would have happened if the Supreme Court didn't step in and say enough is enough?
Does anyone know?
Do you know how our government would have handled a contested election, such as this?
I'll give you a hint...the outcome would have been the same
Some people blame the Supreme Court for stepping in and "deciding" the election, but they didn't. And the outcome would have been the same, regardless of whether they got involved or not. And here is why...
In such an instance, where neither party was going to accept the outcome of Florida, if it swung one way or the other...The election would be thrown into the House of Representatives, who was controlled by Republicans. Thus, Bush would have won anyway....
But feel free to hang onto your bitterness, hatred and demagoguery...I wouldn't want to deprive any Democrats of that... They've got bigger problems this year...
Mark, I can see your point, to a degree...but I think the court did the right thing, and saved the country one hell of a mess, ending up in the House, which still would be messy.
Lower courts were making up their own law. The FLA supreme court was out of their minds.
There were recounts, and Bush won all of them. Opening up the whole state to tampering was what Democrats wanted. They eventually succeeded in stealing an election in 2008, when Al Franken's seat was stolen, using this method; count till you "find" enough votes, then have the Democrat Sec of State certify the election. Later to find out that about 1500 of Franken's votes were by ineligible felons...having won by about 300. There were also nearly 200 cases of voter fraud prosecuted in that election. Franken lost, be became the 60th vote int he senate for Obama's monstrosities, and still sits there, in the stolen seat
MARK, I haven't been around as long as you have, but one thing is crystal clear to me. Democrats cheat. If there's a close election, they're gonna try to steal it.
They paint the picture in the opposite direction in 2000, and it's unfortunate that the supreme court got involved; but the FLA supreme court shouldn't have done what they did either. AND, Bush won, regardless...Plus there was no Democrat Sec of State to certify a stolen election for the Democrats. It was inevitable that this would end up in the House of Representatives
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- ?Lv 79 years agoFavorite Answer
The US Supreme Court "stepped in" by granting Bush's request for an injunction to stop the recounts. That request had been denied by two lower levels of federal courts.
It was Gore who started suing, but he sued in state courts, and it was Bush who was the first to go to federal courts, arguing that the method of conducting recounts was "unconstitutional." It was Bush's legal argument -- that there was some kind of precedent that established that how the ballots were being re-counted was somehow unconstitutional -- that deserved to be laughed out of *every* court that heard it. Gore's legal arguments for why the re-counts should continue was on far more solid legal ground.
You're right that the outcome would have been the same, but if the US Supreme Court had butted out and denied the injunction just like the two lower levels of federal courts did, then the result is that I would not have lost respect for Rehnquist, O'Connor, Scalia, Kennedy, and Thomas.
And I have never been a Democrat. I voted straight Republican tickets in 1996, 1998, and 2000.
- Anonymous9 years ago
The situation would have evolved to civil war in the streets of America. As it was, "we the people" lost that round and into the White House went a man we did not elect.
- ?Lv 79 years ago
We would NOT have invaded a sovereign nation under a false premise, and we would not have over 700,000 disabled for life veterans we will have to care for the next 60+ years.
We would not have had to deal WITH THE OVER 5,000 troops that died for those lies, also we would NOT be in the fiscal mess we are in today.
- Walter CLv 69 years ago
I am glad they did. The electoral college worked just like it was designed to do.
