My prediction is that the US Supreme Court will rule for the US Constitution and the state legislators will decide the appointment of presidential electors.
The questions will Democratic governors allow them to proceed. Can they stop the legislature?
This could result in Congress making the final decision.
Will they be intimated if chaos ensues?
RE: My prediction is that the US Supreme Court will rule for the US Constitution and the state legislators will decide the appointment of presidential electors.
Agreed. In fact this is what many of the Amicus briefs filed by supporters of the Texas lawsuit requests ( see the one filed by Michigan for instance ).
RE: The questions will Democratic governors allow them to proceed. Can they stop the legislature?
Isn’t the legislature INDEPENDENT from the executive branch in every state? Why do they need the governor to convene?
RE: Will they be intimated if chaos ensues?
All the 4 problem states - MI, PA,WI and GA have REPUBLICAN MAJORITIES in the legislature. The weakest link is the COLLECTIVE COURAGE of the Republicans.
The most complicated result is if the electors are not unified in their view and the Electoral College results in a 269-269 tie!
The genius of the framers of the Constitution is that they still have an orderly process put in place. If worse comes to worst it results in an electoral tie, the US House of Representatives - Congress gets to vote for the President.
Under the Constitution’s 12th Amendment, the House would select the next president and the Senate would pick the vice president if no candidate has a majority of Electoral College votes.
Though the House has a Democratic majority, such an outcome would almost certainly benefit Trump. Here’s why: In a concession to small states concerned their voices would be marginalized if the House was called upon to choose the president, the founders of thus country gave only one vote to each state.
House delegations from each state meet to decide how to cast their single vote.
That voting procedure gives equal representation to California – population 40 million – and Wyoming, population 600,000.
This arrangement favors Republicans. The GOP has dominated the House delegations of 26 states since 2018 – exactly the number required to reach a majority under the rules of House presidential selection.
THIS HAS HAPPENED TWO TIMES IN AMERICAN HISTORY...
The founders proved prescient: The elections of 1800 and 1824 did not produce winners in the Electoral College and were decided by the House. Thomas Jefferson was chosen in 1800 and John Quincy Adams in 1824.
All the above discussion of course, assumes the the Electors chosen by the 4 problem states will NOT select Biden. We don’t know that. All we know is that the Legislature of these 4 states are MAJORITY REPUBLICAN.