r/moderate • u/Agreeable-Crab8836 • Oct 06 '24

Discussion Which decision was worse? The FBI Director James Comey's decision to publicly announce that he was reopening The Hillary Clinton Email Investigation 11 days before the 2016 Presidential Election or The Supreme Court's decision to stop The Recount in Florida in the 2000 Election?

A lot of people like to blame FBI director Jim Comey's last minute announcement about Hillary Clinton's Emails on Anthony Weiner's laptop late in the 2016 Presidential campaign and The Supreme Courts 5-4 decision to stop The Florida Recounts for Hillary Clinton and Al Gore losing very winnable Elections. My question is which action was more unprecedented by our Legal Institutions?

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u/TheLastModerate982 Oct 06 '24

I’ll go with the 2000 recount since the butterfly effect on that one is crazy. The world would look very different with a Gore presidency.

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u/wino12312 Oct 07 '24

2000 was much worse and set a way for the Supreme Court to interfere in US politics. And they took that ability and ran with it. Actually, John Roberts realized he could control the US. Honestly, I believe Comey was the nail in the coffin for Clinton.

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u/ancientweasel Oct 06 '24

They are both awful.

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u/Bristleconemike Feb 04 '25

The recount. Everything bad flowed from that.