When I say "equal protection," I'm saying that that vote results of states that did not have massive fraud (the non-swing states) are abridged by the states that did nothing to prevent (or participated in) counting fraudulent votes.
Just as how SCOTUS ruled in Bush v. Gore in 2000 that a recount of just a few counties abridges the rights of the voters in the other counties to have their votes recounted, too, I'm saying that allowing the fraud to go unchallenged in the swing states abridges the votes in all the other states.
That said, I don't want the "equal protection" aspect to become the tail wagging the dog. The issue is triggering the punishment section of the 14th amendment.
The 14th amendment section 2 states:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election for the choice of electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State.I'm saying that the first issue is to force SCOTUS to deal with section 2 of the 14th amendment.
I'm saying that a planned systemic, massive, vote fraud by the people in charge of running the election is an "abridgment" of the votes of those who cast legitimate votes.
I'm saying that some body of harmed people must bring this issue to SCOTUS to resolve, essentially asking why this section is included in the Constitution if nobody can have standing to demand its execution?
I'm saying that a body of Attorneys General or Secretaries of State of the several states should be the parties to bring this issue of 14th amendment punishment to SCOTUS under Article III original jurisdiction, claiming "equal protection" under the law.
I'm saying that, since 14A section 2 contains punishment requirements, and since the states are demanding that other states take abridgment of the vote seriously or federalism will collapse, the states must force SCOTUS to become the trier of fact on this matter.
I'm saying that SCOTUS must be made to hear the case of whether massive fraud occurred in the accused states, whether this fraud was an intentional abridgment of the vote of the citizens who wished to vote against the interests of the bad state actors, and whether and what the proportion of reduction of representation in the House of Representatives is the appropriate punishment to deter states from doing this again.
-PJ