Like this toot if you have a jar of capers that’s been in your fridge since before the supposedly non-partisan #SCOTUS ordered #Florida to stop counting votes in the #2000election , making George W. Bush the 43rd #POTUS.
Boost this toot if you don’t know what a caper is but want to find out in the replies.
Reply with anything else in your fridge since then, such as maraschino cherries 🍒.
SCOTUS did not order the Florida to stop counting votes.
It only slapped down a state court that was out of line in interfering in the election process.
https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/531/98/#tab-opinion-1960861
I mean, that's how it goes down in the mythology, but it doesn't change that SCOTUS did not order the counting to stop.
People who actually care about history, and people who actually care about how the US government functions, are done a disservice by that misleading account of what happened in Florida.
And it's a shame. Citizens need to know civics, need to know how their government works, if they want to engage with it.
@volkris Semantics. Vote counting in #Florida stopped after the #SCOTUS ruling in #BushvGore. That's how it will go down in #history. #Histodons