“At that point there were actually two key votes,” Hasen says. “The first was a 7-2 determination that the Florida recount, as it was being conducted, was unconstitutional on the grounds that there were no clear standards that were being applied consistently to all ballots.
Then, by a 5-4 vote, the court declared that time had run out to devise a remedy. That stopped the process, with Bush ahead.”
We need to be mentally prepared, that this fight does not end if this election is lost. Things will get really shitty, but do remember - USSR fell apart. Took 50 years - but that was a nation that never even had a clue about how a decent country could run.
That said. I pray that this time the Court realizes that in making that decision, they have basically guaranteed that elections in United States become a mess because they have tacitly gave permissions to the media to decide elections, so long as the decision is messy enough that SCC will take a long time to go through the full proccess of deciding.
We need to be mentally prepared, that this fight does not end if this election is lost. Things will get really shitty, but do remember - USSR fell apart. Took 50 years - but that was a nation that never even had a clue about how a decent country could run.
That said. I pray that this time the Court realizes that in making that decision, they have basically guaranteed that elections in United States become a mess because they have tacitly gave permissions to the media to decide elections, so long as the decision is messy enough that SCC will take a long time to go through the full proccess of deciding.