SCOTUS ruled that Florida had to follow their own laws, that existed at the time of the election, not change them on the fly.
they ruled that florida should do a full recount, but that doing a full recount would harm the winner (bush), and they took their time to decide the case such that FL did not have time to do the full recount by the date the results needed to be certified.
it's still beside the fact that the FL supreme court should have been the deciding factor in the case, but now that it's history there is no point in arguing it anymore...
They anounced their decision in less than 24 hours so I don't know where you get "..they took their time to decide the case such that FL did not have time to do the full recount..." As for history you are correct; however, I would like to make 1 point. The non-binding recounts (using all the proposed methods) that occured after the election was certified STILL showed Bush as the winner. Only when you used some rather strange recount processes was Gore ever able to, barely, come out on top.
Important facts:
1: SCOTUS simply forced Florida to follow their own law.
2: SCOTUS Ruled that varying vote counting policies (in different counties) was not allowed.
3: Even after the various recounts, Bush still won the state.
SCOTUS Justice Antonin Scalia is brilliant, just brilliant - 
- 11/12/2012 05:09:19 AM
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- 11/12/2012 05:09:19 AM
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WTF does "I don’t care what their intent was. I care what it was that they intended" mean? 
- 11/12/2012 09:03:23 PM
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- 11/12/2012 09:03:23 PM
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Yeah I read that twice to see if that was right *NM*
- 11/12/2012 09:36:55 PM
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Part of me pities Scalias decline, because he could once nimbly and convincly argue black is white.
- 12/12/2012 07:09:56 PM
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Re: your post.
- 12/12/2012 07:18:18 PM
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More like disapeared in a puff of Florida's own law that they were trying to ignore.
- 12/12/2012 08:13:13 PM
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actually.....
- 12/12/2012 08:32:58 PM
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Re: actually.....
- 12/12/2012 09:39:01 PM
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Florida state law does not and did not prohibit statewide recounts.
- 16/12/2012 01:45:52 PM
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Spoken like a true lib.....I could have written that for you.
- 12/12/2012 05:08:42 AM
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The people of WA and CO just decided pot should be legal; think Scalia agrees?
- 12/12/2012 07:25:11 PM
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FreshMints decided that the almond aroma of radioactive arsenic is very pleasing...
- 12/12/2012 08:09:39 PM
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I am aware of Scalias "logic," and his rejection of it about a year later with Robamacare.
- 16/12/2012 01:51:16 PM
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But you didn't.
- 13/12/2012 04:06:05 PM
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Yup, yup; the Constitution is all about majority rule WITH minority rights.
- 16/12/2012 01:56:15 PM
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Your whole rant lacks any logic
- 12/12/2012 03:46:34 PM
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His comment references the authors (NOT words) intent in both negative and affirmative.
- 12/12/2012 06:45:02 PM
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I was stumped by his phrasing as well
- 12/12/2012 09:31:53 PM
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But we must go by his words and his understanding of their meaning, without interpretation. 
- 16/12/2012 01:40:23 PM
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- 16/12/2012 01:40:23 PM
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The SCotUS is no place for raging homophobes.
- 13/12/2012 04:48:30 AM
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Sorry you don't like it, but what he said is true.
- 13/12/2012 03:11:42 PM
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Lol. Homophobia is synonymous w/ homonegativism. It's not meant to convey a true phobia *NM*
- 13/12/2012 03:28:01 PM
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Only for people who don't know actually know how to read and understand words. Nice spin though. *NM*
- 13/12/2012 05:54:29 PM
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So then what we need is a definition of homophobia?
- 13/12/2012 09:56:15 PM
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Re: So then what we need is a definition of homophobia?
- 13/12/2012 11:16:46 PM
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-phobe : Greek -phobos, adj. derivative of phóbos fear, panic
- 13/12/2012 11:32:14 PM
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Do you have a similar problem with "xenophobia?" Because it's exactly the same thing.
- 14/12/2012 01:30:24 AM
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xenophobia is the fear of the alien... WTF are you trying to say?
- 14/12/2012 03:03:09 AM
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No. You are patently, objectively incorrect.
- 14/12/2012 08:39:00 AM
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Don't believe me, ask a Greek it is after all THEIR word. I gave you some extra capitals, happy now? *NM*
- 14/12/2012 02:56:09 PM
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stop being obtuse
- 14/12/2012 05:10:41 PM
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Hmmmm lets see, people misuse a word, perverting its meaning...
- 14/12/2012 07:29:11 PM
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If everyone "misuses" a word, that becomes an acceptable use of it.
- 14/12/2012 10:14:23 PM
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Re: If everyone "misuses" a word, that becomes an acceptable use of it.
- 15/12/2012 12:12:18 AM
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*NM*
and if everryone jumps off a cliff to splatter on the rocks I should just be a good little lemming.
- 15/12/2012 07:13:27 AM
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actually, you have already chosen stupid by pretending the word means something it does not
- 15/12/2012 03:34:35 PM
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA, my friend John would strenuously disagree.
- 16/12/2012 06:50:19 AM
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and you are a small-minded buffoon who can't come up with real arguments so you resort to nitpicking
- 17/12/2012 11:48:25 PM
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