Giuliani Time: Trump Taps Rudy To Lead Legal Challenges That Are Going Nowhere | Talking Points Memo

Several things about this:

  1. No one, not even the “Pod Save America guys, who think about this stuff for a living and have proven they’re good at it,” was able to figure out before December 2000 that the Supreme Court of these United States could ever fashion a Fourteenth-Amendment argument – think of it! a Fourteenth-Amendment argument! – for not allowing the proper counting of all the votes by the duly appointed local authorities – and yet that is exactly what the Court did. Bizarre, I’m sure, but here we are.

  2. So, yes, it is therefore something of “an interesting mind game to come up with ways” the Court might mess things about.

  3. And it’s not necessarily about having a “viable, realistic way to steal the election.” As noted, it is about using the Court to “commit a certain amount of mayhem,” as unlikely as that may seem a priori.

And with those caveats, I return you now to your regular pod-cast.

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