 David Cole of Georgetown Law argued that, as a way of trying to rehabilitate the court's image after Bush v Gore, the court became more likely to reach a liberal decision in the four years after Bush v Gore than they had been before the case, and that the conservative justices were more likely to join the liberals rather than the other way around.In 2001, a consortium of news organizations, assisted by professional statisticians (NORC), examined numerous hypothetical ways of recounting all the Florida ballots.The study was conducted over a period of 10 months.