federal courts may use any available remedy to make good the wrong done. Bell v. Hood, 327 U.S. at 684 (1946).”

The Supreme Court took no action to remedy the equal protection violation that it had found. The Court apparently found there was nothing it could do to count 60,000 Florida votes even though the margin of “victory” was less than 2,000 votes. Because the court stopped the vote counters, and did not allow time for more counting, its ruling in effect appointed George W. Bush the President of the United States by a single vote of a Supreme Court Justice.

By claiming that the right to equal protection of the laws was breached, the court itself was treating voters differently. Instead of applying the law of letting every vote count, the court rule...

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