I know the general election is a couple of months down the road…..but the way this situation is setting up there are a few things we need to look at before the day.
Let’s say that Biden runs against Trump and wins (again)…..but with all the leis about a stolen election will repeat itself and grow louder.
Could we have yet another insurrection similar to 06 January?
I think not. Those mental midgets may have learned a valuable lesson. No I think it will be more of a legislative assault of the election results. By that I mean there is a chance that some states could actually succeed where the rabid mob failed.
Late last month, in one of its final acts of the term, the Supreme Court queued up another potentially precedent-wrecking decision for next year. The Court’s agreement to hear Moore v. Harper, a North Carolina redistricting case, isn’t just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering. The Court’s right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn voters’ choice in presidential elections.
To understand the stakes, and the motives of Republicans who brought the case, you need only one strategic fact of political arithmetic. Six swing states—Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Arizona, Georgia, and North Carolina—are trending blue in presidential elections but ruled by gerrymandered Republican state legislatures. No comparable red-trending states are locked into Democratic legislatures.
Joe Biden won five of those six swing states in 2020. Donald Trump then tried and failed, lawlessly, to muscle the GOP state legislators into discarding Biden’s victory and appointing Trump electors instead. The Moore case marks the debut in the nation’s highest court of a dubious theory that could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020. And if democracy is subverted in just a few states, it can overturn the election nationwide.
Republican lawyers, taking note of their structural advantage among battleground-state lawmakers, set forth the “independent state legislature” (ISL) doctrine. The doctrine is based on a tendentious reading of two constitutional clauses, which assign control of the “Manner” of congressional elections and the appointment of presidential electors in each state to “the Legislature thereof.” Based on that language, the doctrine proposes that state lawmakers have virtually unrestricted power over elections and electors. State courts and state constitutions, by this reading, hold no legitimate authority over legislatures in the conduct of their U.S. constitutional functions.
There is a real possibility that SCOTUS will help in the desire for the election to be overturned….
The voter needs to consider many things before they vote (most do not) and now there is more that they need to be aware of before they vote.
Pay attention and vote for the country not some orange tinted dipshit.
Turn The Page!
I Read, I Write, You Know
“lego ergo scribo”
The SCROTUM paid a lot of attention to the Bush camp when it stole the election from Gore (the winner of the popular vote) and gave it to Georgie, making him the first president who was ever appointed by an activist judiciary rather than being elected by The People. This set the stage for a new way of doing elections in all the elections since then.
I think if Trump succeeds in becoming the Republican candidate, he will once again claim ‘foul’ if he loses. If he wins, all bets are off for the foreseeable future.
Best wishes, Pete.
Of course he will yell foul because he thinks he can do no wrong…..typical. chuq
My perception is that given the scrutiny of trying to find fraud voting across many states in the last election, that this next election is going to be much harder trying to find even the rare “unqualified” vote. Every voting region in the land is going to have witnesses galore watching counts and re-counts and voting booth activity. There will be more attention than ever paid to having lots of eyes on the process everywhere. Even the lies will be harder to make up.
If Trump gets elected it will likely be a real “We, the people..” moment and the country deserves what it gets for the next four years.
Doug the country always deserves what it gets…..ignorance breeds stupidity and we have it in spades. chuq
When you read “polls” that say more than 60% of voters would never cast a ballot for him, it helps to understand why certain states are trying so hard – and in many cases illegally – to keep people from being able to vote.
Yep.. and as you said some is legal.. or rather “legal until challenged”. But I can’t imagine many local election supervisors and commissioners are going to be willing to diddle around given the intense scrutiny. Hope springs eternal.