[Steve_Seattle]

"Here's the reality: judges have good reason to fear that a ruling in favor of Trump will result in cities burning."

I hate to say it, but that non-legal reasoning may trump all of the legal issues. It sounds exactly the way Roberts would think, i.e.,: "These allegations, if true, would so upset our notions of fairness and democracy, would so likely lead to civil unrest if acted upon, that it would be dangerous to give them a hearing."

In other words, to prevent democracy from being subverted, we must allow it to be subverted with rank election fraud backed up by the threat of civil unrest.

[cgbg]

If there is no rule of law, there is no rule of law.

Let the judges and justices ponder that for a while.

[kiryandil]

I hate to say it, but that non-legal reasoning may trump all of the legal issues. It sounds exactly the way Roberts would think, i.e.,: "These allegations, if true, would so upset our notions of fairness and democracy, would so likely lead to civil unrest if acted upon, that it would be dangerous to give them a hearing."

The Eloi on Twitter and in Antifa may make a lot of noise - but wait'll the Morlocks with the guns decide that Roberts' "laws" don't apply to them any more.

And start holding the banana-republic overseers DIRECTLY responsible, while avoiding their gunthug enforcers...

[Scott from the Left Coast]

“ It sounds exactly the way Roberts would think”

Yeah Roberts will think that way, sure enough. He can write a dissent to the 5-4 majority ruling.