[Ingtar]

The Supreme Court held that: (1) manual recounts ordered by Florida Supreme Court, without specific standards to implement its order to discern “intent of the voter,” did not satisfy minimum requirement for non- arbitrary treatment of voters necessary, under Equal Protection Clause, to secure fundamental right to vote for President, and (2) remand of case to Florida Supreme Court for it to order constitutionally proper contest would not be appropriate remedy.

The judgment of the Supreme Court of Florida is reversed, and the case is remanded for further proceedings not inconsistent with this opinion.

Pursuant to this Court’s Rule 45.2, the Clerk is directed to issue the mandate in this case forthwith.

It is so ordered.

http://law.gsu.edu/ccunningham/fall03/BushVGore-Edited.htm

This vacated the Fla Supreme’s decision (though the SCOTUS left them an out if they could do it in the time remaining ) Since their reveral of Sauls was reversed, it left Sauls’ denial as the final say in the Florida election question.

[Outlaw Woman]

The SCOTUS was the final say in that they backed the SCOF into a corner. There was no where to go. Had the SCOTUS not taken the case it would not have ended. They ended it with their ruling. Florida did not end it. Even if it was remanded back to them doesn't mean it ended with the SCOF; it was dead on arrival. They were wrong and were struck down by the SCOTUS.