I think SCOTUS is going to screw the pooch and leave us facing a civil war.
I hope SCOTUS realizes that they caused this and should be given no quarter.
I think the words "I think" should not be allowed in any thread discussing the election. The fact is that nobody knows what's going to happen.
If that happens, are you with us?
The notion that Trump is asking the court to "overturn" the election is nonsense. Nothong could be further from the truth.
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The Texas lawsuit before the USSC argues that PA, GA, MI, and WI violated the Constitution by:
(A) changing election laws, thereby treating voters unequally, and, (B) allowed serious voting irregularities.
THIS IS A BRILLIANT LEGAL ATTACK: Trump is simply asking that “every legal vote count,” that the court invalidate illegal votes.
Lower court judges would not hear Trump's case, deciding that, if they were to consider Trump’s claims,
they ran the risk of “disenfranchising” Biden voters........a singularly dishonest argument.
Disenfranchisement occurs when people are deprived of the right to vote.
No one was “deprived” of the vote here. So-called Biden “voters” all voted.
Disenfranchise cannot occur when a “voter” was illegal from the get-go, particularly when that “Biden voter” is
<><> dead,
<><> an amorphous computer algorithm,
<><> or a paper form mfg in a Chinese print shop submitted as a voter.
With 18 states (the audacity of Arizona joining the suit is bitter irony) joining amicus to this suit, NOT hearing the case would be a massive capitulation to the reality that the Constitutional Republic experiment in the US is over for good.
With Alito, Thomas, and Barrett now on the court, I don’t see their not finding for Texas here a logical possibility. The case is so simple and clear, and its based on 14A which we have driven a fleet of trucks through (penumbras and emanations from 14A to see a women’s right to kill their own children).
Because it is 14A, and because the argument is that the 18 States interest here is in the election of VICE PRESIDENT, there isn’t a whole lot of wiggle room.
The State’s case is allowing 6 states to illegally alter election law harms the interests of the other states in the Senate, where it is often the case that the VP is the deciding vote. Full stop.
It’s goes to the original reason the 14A was written.
The remedy for the states here is also black-letter - let the legislatures in the states fix the problem. Done. No new law, penumbras, emanations, hanging chads. Done.
Then it is simply up to the state legislatures to fix it by electing their own slates.
IF THEY CAN’T DO THAT IN TIME, then the solution is also black-letter (and has precedent in the Hayes election): it goes to the House under 12A.
Not ruling for Texas, also, essentially ends SCOTUS as we know it. In the back of their minds they know a Biden Admin will add 30 new SCOTUS justices, and their branch is done. They become a non-elected mini-congress and they make all the bad law that Congress can’t manage to pass.
As such, yes, they can screw this up, but they know what the impact will be if they do.
So there you go. It’s why this suit is so brilliant. The evidence matters here. In the appellate court, only reversible error is considered. The lower courts can play all the reindeer games they want because nobody is really looking, and they know SCOTUS is out there somewhere to backstop their idiocy (or not).
When all of this is over, if it ends well, there needs to be a sterilization of the entire system. It needs to be burned out thoroughly, like molten lead being poured down an anthill.
And we need to prepare something extra special spicy for the Chinese. This is/was a clear act of war.
“ I think SCOTUS is going to screw the pooch and leave us facing a civil war.”
I wouldn’t think they would want to be among the first casualties. If it all gets hot there will be selective targets: the ones responsible.