Posted on 04/29/2022 5:16:58 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
A retired federal judge appointed by former President George H.W. Bush warned in an opinion piece published by CNN on Wednesday that Republicans are “already a long way toward recapturing the White House in 2024, whether Trump or another Republican candidate wins the election or not.”
In his essay, J. Michael Luttig broke down what he called the “Republican blueprint” to steal the 2024 election ― the cornerstone of which, he said, was the Supreme Court’s embrace of the “independent state legislature” doctrine.
The 2020 election fraud lies peddled by former President Donald Trump and his allies are just “the shiny object that Republicans have tauntingly and disingenuously dangled before the American public for almost a year and a half now to distract attention from their far more ambitious objective,” wrote Luttig.
Their actual objective, said Luttig, was “to execute successfully in 2024 the very same plan they failed in executing in 2020 and to overturn the 2024 election if Trump or his anointed successor loses again in the next quadrennial contest.”
“The last presidential election was a dry run for the next,” cautioned Luttig, who in January 2021 advised then-Vice President Mike Pence against assisting Trump in delaying President Joe Biden’s win.
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Stopped reading right there. Someone should dig up H.W. and run his coffin through a wood chipper.
...I can do anything better than you...
...No you can't!
...Yes I can...
Thank you for confirming my memory. I remember the same .. that the Luttig name was tossed around regularly as a Bush SCOTUS short-lister
SOBER UP, PAL.
I’m sure satan is able to “get a sense of his soul...”
Thanks.
For posterity, Jose Padilla could be the 20th hijacker (9-11), I don’t know.
But from all the evidence I have seen and heard, Padilla carried out the OKC bombing with McVey and Nichols.
Imho.
5.56mm
long ago....15 years or so...Luttig was floated as an SC nominee by some GOPe.
Hugh Hewitt, iirc, and perhaps some others, which syncs with Luttig’s anti populist frame of mind. (I didn’t read his column and probably won’t)
Lol I believe this is the judge Laura Ingram was demanding be put on the Supreme Court.
The independent state legislature doctrine says that, under the Elections and the Electors Clauses of the Constitution, state legislatures possess plenary and exclusive power over the conduct of federal presidential elections and the selection of state presidential electors. Not even a state supreme court, let alone other state elections officials, can alter the legislatively written election rules or interfere with the appointment of state electors by the legislatures, under this theory.
It’s always been my understanding that the constitution authorizes state legislatures to select methods by which presidential electors are chosen. Every state chooses electors by popular vote within the states. A state could choose electors by some other method.
Maybe I’m missing the point of this article. He makes it sound as if it is a threat to the survival of the nation, if people take these parts of the constitution and the Electoral Count Act seriously. Is it a threat to apply those legal provisions to situations, in which there are questions or problems regarding the conduct of the elections by which electors are chosen?
But maybe I’m just missing something. State legislatures have always had the power to choose electors, but apparently shouldn’t exercise that authority according to him.
It’s a threat to the constitution to follow the constitution?
Someone please enlighten me as to what I’m missing here.
Laura Ingram. Her arrogance demanding Judge Luttig be appointed was one of the first reasons I didn’t like her.
Another was her going on about John Roberts being “courageous” and “heroic”, when all he ever did was be a puke at a big law firm.
A most punchable face
Is there anyone from either the George H. W. Bush administration of the George W. Bush administration who isn’t a colossal ahole such as this Luttig character?
He wants to end federalism and consolidate all election powers into the hands of the Deep State.
Vote Republican! Or things could be worse!
Appellee Jose Padilla, a United States citizen, associated with forces hostile to the United States in Afghanistan and took up arms against United States forces in that country in our war against al Qaeda. Upon his escape to Pakistan from the battlefield in Afghanistan, Padilla was recruited, trained, funded, and equipped by al Qaeda leaders to continue prosecution of the war in the United States by blowing up apartment buildings in this country. Padilla flew to the United States on May 8, 2002, to begin carrying out his assignment, but was arrested by civilian law enforcement authorities upon his arrival at O’Hare International Airport in Chicago. Thereafter, in a letter to the Secretary of Defense, the President of the United States personally designated Padilla an “enemy combatant” against this country, stating that the United States is “at war” with al Qaeda, that “Mr. Padilla engaged in conduct that constituted hostile and war-like acts, including conduct in preparation for acts of international terrorism that had the aim to cause injury to or adverse effects on the United States,” and that “Mr. Padilla represents a continuing, present and grave danger to the national security of the United States.” Having determined that “detention of Mr. Padilla is necessary to prevent him from aiding al Qaeda in its efforts to attack the United States or its armed forces, other governmental personnel, or citizens,” the President directed the Secretary of Defense to take Padilla into military custody, in which custody Padilla has remained ever since.
Maybe it was Karl Marx….
Sorry Mr. J. Michael Luttig. Conducting elections through “Independent state legislatures” is not simple doctrine. It’s hard wired into the Constitution. If you don’t like it then you can propose an amendment, butthead.
Sustaining the steal is just how pissants on the Left roll.
There’s enemies of freedom everywhere these days and Trump scares the hell out of them.
Dragnetting...
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