For half a century, the courts have been usurping power where it wasn t being thrust into their hands by cowardly legislatures. This was both ironic and false. In the first place, liberals were more than delighted to see the Florida Supreme Court step in to decide the election. Liberals had been similarly pleased by nearly every judicial arrogation of power since at least Griswold v. Connecticut in 1965. But it was absurd for liberals to cry foul when the U.S. Supreme Court simply applied adult supervision to a state court that was behaving as the poster child for judicial activism.
Liberals think they have conservatives over a barrel on judicial activism.
But you are supposed to believe in judicial restraint. Heads they win, tails we lose. George Bush won the election according to the rules in place on November 7, 2000. The only way for Al Gore to win was to change the rules after the fact. This the compliant majority of the Florida Supreme Court was quite willing to do.