But at least the necessary four Justices decided there were grounds to weigh in on fairly narrow legal questions: Did the Florida Supreme Court usurp the power of the state legislature by allowing hand counts to continue past the legal deadline?
And America's friendship with Britain disqualifies it from pressuring the unionists or from taking centre stage in a way that would seem tousurp Britain's role as sovereign power, or harm British national interests.
America has a choice either to be increasingly rendered a mere bystander, letting political correctness usurp progress or to emerge from the shadows of its super-power status and take a firm stand in the international energy arena.