The 2000 Election was on 11/7, and the deciding vote in the SCOTUS was made on 12/12 by FEMALE CATHOLIC justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a Reagan appointee. (She was succeeded by Samuel Alito in 2005. His nickname was "Scalito," after Scalia.) See here:
Bush v. Gore, 531 U.S. 98 (2000), O'Connor joined with four other justices on December 12, 2000, to rule on the Bush v. Gore case that ceased challenges to the results of the 2000 presidential election (ruling to stop the ongoing Florida election recount and to allow no further recounts). This case effectively ended Gore's hopes to become president. Some legal scholars have argued that she should have recused herself from this case, citing several reports that she became upset when the media initially announced that Gore had won Florida, with her husband explaining that they would have to wait another four years before retiring to Arizona.[63] O'Connor expressed surprise that the decision became controversial.[64] Some people in Washington stopped shaking her hand after the decision, and Arthur Miller confronted her about it at the Kennedy Center.[64]
The 2000 Election was on 11/7, and the deciding vote in the SCOTUS was made on 12/12 by FEMALE CATHOLIC justice Sandra Day O'Connor, a Reagan appointee. (She was succeeded by Samuel Alito in 2005. His nickname was "Scalito," after Scalia.) See here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Day_O%27Connor#Supreme_Court_jurisprudence