Those three seats would have been filled by Bush if he had won in 1994. After being chastised by the U.S. Supreme Court for rewriting the law to give Al Gore one last chance to overturn the election in Florida, four of the seven justices voted to thumb their noses at the highest court. The three appointed by Chiles in his second term voted with the majority. Presumably, Bush would have appointed three conservative justices, and it seems likely the vote would have been for George W. Bush, the governor's brother, effectively ending the effort to overturn the Florida election. That also could have kept the Legislature and U.S. Supreme Court out of the picture.
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