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What did the U.S. Supreme Court's December 9, 2000, stay do to the Florida recount?

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U.S. presidential election of 2000 — Bush v. Gore A Florida judge examining a challenged vote at an operations center in Plantation, Florida, during a recount of the state's U.S. presidential election ballots, 2000.

On December 9, 2000, the U.S. Supreme Court granted a petition from the George W. Bush campaign for a stay of the Florida Supreme Court’s order that had mandated immediate manual recounts of undervotes in all counties where such recounts had not yet occurred. By granting this stay, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively halted the ongoing manual recount process in Florida while it agreed to review the case.12