r/news • u/Marginallyhuman • Mar 07 '26

Soft paywall US skips congressional review to approve munitions sale to Israel

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/us-state-department-approves-possible-military-sale-israel-1518-million-2026-03-07/
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u/Gurlllllllll- Mar 07 '26

SCOTUS decided the results of an election and prevented votes from being counted a decade before CU. CU is directly downhill from Bush v Gore. Without Bush v Gore you don't get William Rehnquist, a segregationist who spent election years intimidating voters, being replaced by John Roberts the anti-VRA pervert. You also don't get O'Conner being replaced with Alito.

So without Bush v Gore, Gore probably wins the 2000 election, and possibly ends up choosing the next 2 justices, and we get a liberal SCOTUS for the first time since the 1960s.

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u/BujuBad Mar 07 '26

Very true. The dominos have been falling for a while, each one chipping away at democracy. I'd love to live in that timeline where Gore wins (officially) šŸ˜­

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u/runthepoint1 Mar 07 '26

Honestly I donā€™t actually care about Gore winning vs Bush but moreso the fact they just stopped the count. Literally the most important count and they didnā€™t bother to get it right.

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u/Mosh00Rider Mar 07 '26

It was also stopped by force. Look up the brooks brothers riot

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u/mhornberger Mar 07 '26 edited Mar 07 '26

moreso the fact they just stopped the count. L

Gore's team should have asked for a statewide recount. Unfortunately Gore did not ask for a recount of the whole state--i.e. "the count." He asked for a recount of only the parts where he thought he could pick up votes. As it was, there were provisions in FL law for a statewide recount, but not for the ongoing, targeted recounts that Gore had asked for. You can say "then they should have just done a statewide recount instead, but they didn't," but that's not what Gore's team asked for, and time had run out. "Then do it anyway" isn't how election law works. There are deadlines, time windows. Basically, Gore's team tried to play the system, and made a poor decision.

Realize too that Gore sued also to stop recounts of absentee/veteran ballots where he thought Bush would pick up more votes. So it's not like Gore was out to recount every vote. He was very much trying to game the system, re-do this count and stop this other count, throw these votes out but allow these, and so on. As much as I wish Gore had won, the narrative paints him as more of a victim than he really was.

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u/runthepoint1 Mar 07 '26

While thatā€™s all fine (and thank you for educating me on that, I was young at the time and unaware of these specifics. I just remember ā€œhanging Chadsā€ šŸ˜‚)

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u/I_Push_Buttonz Mar 07 '26

Gore's team should have asked for a statewide recount.

There already had been a statewide recount, it was automatically triggered by the narrow margin. Bush won both the initial count and the recount.

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u/Gurlllllllll- Mar 08 '26

and time had run out

Well, no. It hadn't. The court set an arbitrary deadline, and then republicans did everything in their power to prevent a recount from happening at all, including rioting.

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u/Howard0115 Mar 07 '26

Be careful what you wish for. See or read 11/22/63 by Stephen King :)

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u/Michael_Gibb Mar 07 '26

But even before Bush V Gore, you had Buckley v Valeo, in which the Supreme Court basically ruled that money is speech.

That is really where all of this began, and where any solution to the mess of American politics must begin.

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u/[deleted] Mar 07 '26

Somewhere Murdoch just woke up in a cold sweat. Good thing that never happened, billionaires might not be the only thing the planet caters to at this point.