Considering that the actual, you know, votes would have produced a different result in 2000, it is not an idle conceit. The US Supreme Court did, in fact, choose in 2000, and very publicly, by 5:4. Had Anthony Kennedy chosen differently, we would have had a different presidency, and probably no Iraq War, and might have been well on the way to controlling the now very obvious global climate catastrophe.

It was all perfectly legal.

In 2000, global climate catastrophe was still denied.