Your link doesn’t lead to anything, but if you are trying to suggest the supreme arbitrarily decided Bush won the presidency then that is factually incorrect. There was a court case about Florida’s ballots in particular that happened to be enough to decide the outcome of the presidential election.
But they didn’t decide it directly and arbitrarily, as OP is suggesting might have happened. The power to elect the President is in the hands of the Electoral College, and the House of Representatives. The most that a Supreme Court can do is tamper with the process of tallying the popular vote.
Izzy@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Your link doesn’t lead to anything, but if you are trying to suggest the supreme arbitrarily decided Bush won the presidency then that is factually incorrect. There was a court case about Florida’s ballots in particular that happened to be enough to decide the outcome of the presidential election.
sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
The Supreme Court decided the election.
jasondj@ttrpg.network 9 months ago
More to the point, they stopped the recount.
Fredselfish@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Which in turn declared Bush the winner when clearly lost.
OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world 9 months ago
But they didn’t decide it directly and arbitrarily, as OP is suggesting might have happened. The power to elect the President is in the hands of the Electoral College, and the House of Representatives. The most that a Supreme Court can do is tamper with the process of tallying the popular vote.