3dbbae6a_rt_decisions___Tampa_Bay_Times__Impact_on_merit_retention
[Case name and date] Bush v. Gore, 12/8/00 [Case summary] A tight vote in Florida left the 2000 presidential race between George W. Bush and Al Gore in question. In this landmark case, the Supreme Court was asked to review a lower court's ruling that denied Gore's requests as he contested the election results. Eventually, this case went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court, which narrowly voted to overturn the Florida high court's ruling and award the presidency to Bush. [Ruling] 4-3. Pariente, Lewis and Quice sided with majority. [What majority said] The majority decided a lower court erred by not agreeing to count certain votes during the recount. The court added votes that cut into Bush's lead, ordered an immediate recount of 9,000 Miami-Dade ballots and directed every county to manually recount more than 30,000 ballots that had gone untallied. [Impact on merit retention] 
People who are hoping to get these justices removed from court have used this case as an example of judicial activism, saying the court rewrote elections laws. Bush supporters were unhappy with the court ruling.
Ahead of merit retention vote, Times/Herald charts controversial Supreme Court decisions | Tampa Bay Times
Impact on merit retention