This case isn’t about “widespread fraud”. It’s about who has the authority to hold and administer presidential elections. A handful of states used COVID as an excuse to ride roughshod over Constitutional and statutory standards.
Ding, Ding, Ding.... We have a winner... you have it absolutely correct
Precisely! Bravo ... but doesn’t Trump Intervening stretch it to fraud as cau7sation?
There are two issues to be considered. Did the defendant states executive officials implement election laws without legislative action as required by the federal Constitution and did those laws undermine the integrity of the vote such that fraud could not be detected? The actual evidence of fraud would not be an issue for the SCOTUS but they could appoint a “Special Master” to investigate the evidence for the SCOTUS if they deemed it necessary.
The second issue would be to determine if the actions by the defendant states diluted the validity of the plaintiff state votes which would violate the equal protection Amendment of the Constitution.
If they refuse to hear this case there are at least four or five other cases that are ready to file or have already been filed. If they take this case it may cause all the actions to be joined under one ruling since there is a lot of overlap. It is unlikely they would order any recounts or special elections but they could declare the elector selection for the defendant states as void and let them vote on it in a legislative special session. If the states are unable to come up with a new set of electors and Biden has less than 270 it will go to the House for a contingent election with one vote per state. Trump would win this 28-22.