Could the SCOTUS ruling have been overturned and Gore put back in?

[wildflower]

Please forgive me if this is an ignorant question.

Now, at some point after 2000, they found that Florida had indeed gone to Gore, is that correct? I don't remember when it was.

Let's say they found this out in 2002, and there was no disputing the electoral college had actually gone to Gore in 2000.

Question: Could the SCOTUS ruling have been overturned, * removed, and Gore installed as president in 2002? Are there laws that would block this from happening?

(I'm wondering about this for the future.)

-wildflower

[Bossy Monkey]

1. No appealing Supreme Court decisions; that's what "supreme" means n/t

[wildflower]

6. So are rulings overturned by an original lawsuit, then? If so,

could someone have brought a new case, such as Gore v. Harris, or something like that?

Again please forgive my ignorance here.

-wildflower

[mikehiggins]

2. It would take an act of Congress, if it could be done at all

How likely do you think that would be?

There is no higher authority to appeal to than the SCOTUS as far as the law is concerned so you'd have to argue in front of the same judges that their decision was based on faulty information or faulty law.

How likely do you think that would be?

[Hepburn]

5. IMO....

...the Supremes under Marbury v. Madison would have declared any act of Congress like this un-Const and the decision would have remained. The SCOTUS has the final determination on things under its jurisidiction and IMO they would not have let Congress take anything away from them.

Besides....a Repub Congress would have never put Gore in.

I agree totally with you on the statement that there is no higher court to go to and there is no way the Supremes would have agreed to a re-hearing or futher argument on the case - let alone change their minds.

[serryjw]

10. I have read all the spin..BUT

Electioms (right or wrong) are a state issue.....Where is it written that SCOTUS had the right in the first place to decide 2000. This should have been decided by Florida SC and stood.

[wildflower]

7. Hmmm, a -10% chance, maybe? :)

[Johnny 99]

3. No

The only one who can overturn a Supreme Court ruling is...the Supreme Court. Think Plessy v. Ferguson, amongst other things.

[atre]

11. Not entirely true

You can overturn a Supreme Court amendment through the amendment process, but that's happened so rarely that it hardly merits mention.

[Mz Pip]

4. No, I don't think so

Once the elction is certified there is no going back.

The only way GOre could have become President after that was for Cheney to resign as VP and Bush appoint Gore as VP and then resign himself.

MzPip
:dem:

[wildflower]

8. Sigh, imagine if that had happened...

what things would be like.

Though I find even imagining it happening is simply impossible.

-wildflower

[henslee]

9. Yeah by God and a few well aimed thunderbolts.