11. Justices John Paul Stevens and Ruth Bader Ginsburg filed a separate dissent. 12. Justices David H. Souter and Stephen G. Breyer joined the dissenting opinion by Stevens, while Justice Anthony M. Kennedy filed a separate dissent. 13. Thomas filed a separate dissent, in which Scalia joined. 14. Justices Major B. Harding and Leander J. Shaw joined in a separate dissent. 15. Justice David H. Souter filed a separate dissent. 16. Tjoflat wrote a separate dissent criticizing the lack of standards in the Florida manual recount statute. 17. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offered a separate dissent that criticized the majority for following public opinion more than case law. |