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This is the case that proves the point. Courts don't want to get involved in things like this. They don't want to antagonize half the country, for it would mean the eventual end of the Supreme Court as we know it. The justices a president appoints don't want to be seen as people who will do whatever he wants. The Trump judges didn't have to be so dismissive. They could have been more like Thomas or Alito.

Maybe there were other things people in government could have done, but this was never going to end up with Trump having a second term. There wasn't going to be do-over and in most cases there was no way to say which votes were fraudulent and which weren't. Nixon knew how impossible it was to overturn the official election results, so he didn't try. President Trump certainly should have pressed his case, but he should have understood what the pretty much certain outcome would be.

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“Maybe there were other things people in government could have done, but this was never going to end up with Trump having a second term.”

Why do you are others keep saying that. It’s a secondary issue and stawman as used.

The people who keep saying that and base their precociously cynical comments on it simply seem dumb, whether they are serious or sincere or are actively working to support the coup.