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Last year , the House of Delegates approved a plan that would require clinics that perform abortions to meet the same standards as ambulatory surgery centers , but the measure died in a Senate committee.The bill has been reintroduced this year . Then-Vice President Al Gore 's legal team involved the courts in the election by asking a state court to order a recount , Kennedy said.Legal scholars and the four dissenting justices have said the Supreme Court should have declined to jump into the case in the first place.In a decision made public on the evening of Dec. 12 , 2000 , the court said the recount violated the Constitution 's Equal Protection Clause because Florida counties were allowed to set their own standard for determining whether to count a vote . His remarks were reported in the Gannett Co. ' s Journal-News.The court 's decision to halt the recount of Florida 's disputed election results , thus giving Bush the state 's electoral votes , has been heavily criticized as an example of the court overstepping its bounds and , worse , being driven by politics.Rather than let the recount take place and leave state officials and possibly Congress to determine the outcome of the election , the court 's five conservative justices decided to intervene.They eventually overturned a ruling of the Florida Supreme Court and halted the recount of the state 's disputed election results 36 days after the voting . An additional 16 were deemed to be " unsubstantiated " - - a polite way of saying they were misleading , mostly false or flatly wrong - - while 16 were an artful mix of fact and fiction , they report in their new book , " Deliberative Choices : Debating Public Policy in Congress . Many Koreans are Confucianists or Buddhists , although the people tend to be eclectic in their religious practices .