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2000 Election
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Uncertainty of election outcome in Florida
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Recount - Gore wants 2nd recount
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Apparent Gore victory
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Injunction provoked furious protests from democrats and was derided by legal scholars as a transparently partisan attempt by the Rehnquist Court to hand the election to Bush.
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Supreme court decides date is binding and because they didn’t finish the Florida recount was done.
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Justice Scalia was interviewed by CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl on the show 60 Minutes.
Justice Scalia was interviewed by CBS correspondent Lesley Stahl on the show 60 Minutes. Scalia admits to playing a pivotal roll in urging the other justices to end the Florida recount, thereby handing the 2000 election to George Bush.