Posted on 12/08/2020 5:59:53 PM PST by BlackFemaleArmyColonel
SCOTUS GIVES GA, MI, WI, AND PA UNTIL THURSDAY DEC 10 AT 3PM TO RESPOND TO SUIT BROUGHT BY TEXAS.
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Theoretically, best choice would be an order to revote the 4 states, this time according to law.
But SCOTUS may throw it back to the state legislatures to decide who the proper electors are. Since that is the remedy in the Constitution for a failed election.
OR, ....they may simply strongly recommend serious electoral reforms for the future, and hand it to Biden along with a scolding of Democrat election officials.
Another poster said that SCOTUS could simply say that the results of the elections in those states were invalid. Neither candidate would have 270 since the slates of electors from those states would be in dispute.
Constitution kicks in at that point, and the matter goes to the House.
Each STATE, represents 1 vote. If the state has more R Reps than D, then it’s an R vote. Vice versa. Currently, there are 26 R delegations, and 23 Ds (and 1 I, which could not caucus with the Ds). DJT remains POTUS.
I don’t see this going anywhere. States have a lot of discretion on how they hold elections and pick electors. I would be shocked if the Supreme Court doesn’t throw the case out by Friday. I think many on here are setting themselves up for a big letdown.
I think that’s the best possible path.
It is completely Constitutional.
It recognizes that the election results are, on their face, not trustworthy.
It doesn’t try to “fix” the election, it sets is aside and says “we have other constitutional mechanisms, let’s use those”.
To decide otherwise is to have the whole republic fall, and the Supreme Court should try to avoid that. Focusing on legal niceties while your house collapses around you is not a good approach.
I’m skeptical as well
Not trying be a downer but SCOTUS could just leave it to the states..
But as we’ve seen, most of their supreme courts are corrupt as well
I just don’t see a Roberts court doing the right thing
As many have expressed — game is on!
“Invalidate current spate of illegally chosen electors.
New election for president; expediency means no mail in ballots.”
I don’t think the Supreme Court could order a new election. I think it would get kicked back to the legislature to name electors.
I have no confidence the GA legislature would name a Republican slate of electors. The Republican governor & SOS are both pushing hard to maintain the current (Biden) result. I have no doubt they would push the legislature to name a Biden slate to “maintain the will of the voters”.
If the Dems win the WH AND the Senate, they threaten to add DC and Puerto Rico.
They forgot that Texas came into the Union as an independent counrtry and negotiated successfully the right to divide themselves into 5 states........ (i.e., TEN Senators for Texas!
Giving “Ten in Texas” a whole new meaning
btt
If they kick it back to the states, that means they kick it back to the state legislatures, not the state supreme courts ( this Texas assertion has nothing to do with state supreme courts, SCOTUS can’t kick it back to the supreme courts when it didn’t COME FROM the state supreme courts.)
I didn’t know about the five state deal. I fear Dallas and Austin would be as blue as Washington State, which is a completely failed state at this point.
Seriously, as in a real ‘failed state’.
In Seattle, you barely have private property rights and a warlord is in charge of the city (and she’s from India, less than five years from India).
It does not appear that it will be the case since state legislatures have already ceded that authority to the executive branch. Even if SCOTUS punts on this, it will have no bearing on the authority of the state legislatures to control their elections, since they've chosen to cede that authority statutorily.
“The pandemic does not void the constitution”
I think every Rat and most elected Republicans disagree with that statement.
I understand
My point was that their state supreme courts are complicit, corrupt
If SCOTUS kicks back to legislators, how many of those will do the right thing?
Is there a current list of states joining in? If so where
Its hard for SCOTUS to refuse a state as they are the only court of relief for a state.
Texas, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota, Missouri.
Where’s Louisiana?
Nobody NEW?
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