After Casting Key Fifth Vote For Bush, Justice O’Connor Now Regrets Bush v. Gore

[Uncle Joe]

31. No, that scenario wouldn't have went to the Supreme Court, it would've been up to Congress

to decide which set of electors to seat.

Of course the Republicans controlled Congress and they would've chose the Florida Republican Legislature's set of electors over those of the people anyway, but at least this would've been Constitutional.

Furthermore had Congress chosen, this would've been politically honest, they would clearly be held responsible for usurping the will of the people.

The same motivating force which after the political shadow of 1824 compelled the people to overwhelmingly elect Andrew Jackson to the Presidency in 1828; (ushering in the Jacksonian Era,) would've played a more pronounced part in the election of 2004.

I believe the Republicans in Congress and the Felonious Five knew this, they didn't want a decades long era of Progressivism to take hold. They couldn't afford such a clear and concise crystallization of public political thought. So the only other choice was to deliberately muck up the results with an Orwellian interpretation of law, raping the Constitution in the process.