Answer:
The best answer to the question: How does the Supreme Court in the 2000 election challenge the original intent? Would be, A: Because the Supreme Court could be considered a faction.
Explanation:
Although essentially the Judicial branch was designed to become a neutral power, without any leanings towards a particular party, or a particular form of government, in the 2000 election, this line was crossed and many Americans started believing that this ideal of neutrality on the part of the Supreme Court, was crossed. Originally, the Court is supposed to become an interpreter of the Law, the U.S Constitution and other legislation, that impacts the outcomes of different activities in American life.
In the 2000 election, the Court had to intervene when a lawsuit was presented to challenge the election of George W. Bush as President, in the case Bush vs. Gore. The point was that in Florida´s election, it seemed that there had been a miscount of votes, which favored Bush, over Gore.
Although the initial suit was taken up by the Florida Supreme Court, the matter reached all the way to the U.S Supreme Court, and they stepped in, on account of supposed violations to the Fourteenth Amendment and the Equal Protection Clause. Arguing protection of Floridian voters´ rights, the Court stopped the counting and made a decision. In this form, they favored Bush, over Gore, and thus were considered to have become partisan. Something the Founding Fathers had not intended to happen when they Framed the Constitution. They became a faction at that point which highly favored Bush and his party, by basically giving him the Presidency.
