Well, imagine the irony when they’re going to start screaming to “count every ballot!” when the scope of their loss becomes apparent.
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WOW. The ‘fix’ is in and they are ALL in ‘collusion’. You can’t have an investigation because they will overturn it all. Lying fkn frauds.
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That would assume that their hoped-for scenario comes to pass with zero deviations.
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Kavanaugh cited Bush v. Gore. The citation was notable, given that at the time, the court’s majority said that the decision should not be used as guidance for future cases.
People always miss the implied footnote to that caveat. To wit, *the decision should not be used as guidance for future cases unless the Guardians Of Pandemics are saddled with another dangerous loser and the court has no other avenue to assure that power remains in the hands of a deplorable dystopian minority."
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That would go nicely with the House impeaching Clarence Thomas (for lying on his financial disclosures) and Brett “Kav the Spaz” Kavanaugh (for lying during both of his confirmation hearings).
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Surprised they haven’t just run out a lawsuit that voting is only legal on election day itself, thus all the early votes have to be thrown out.
Oh, wait, that decision is scheduled for release next Monday evening…
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Julian Sanchez
@normative
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So, here’s an irony: The “results” we get on election night are the results of press organizations calling the outcome; official certification happens later. So Trump is… demanding we abide by whoever the media declares to be the winner?
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“Different bodies of law and different precedents govern these two situations and require, in these particular circumstances, that we allow the modification of election rules in Pennsylvania but not Wisconsin," Roberts wrote in the Wisconsin opinion.
So if the federal courts should not impose themselves on the decisions of states with regard to running elections … how does Roberts rationalize his conservative colleagues who felt it was appropriate to defy the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court and the will of the people?
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And here we are still hoping the FBI will be on Democracy’s side
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Appointed by the man who stole the election of the first woman POTUS to undo the legacy of the first AA POTUS. Wow.
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Remember that “Methane Trigger” from continental shelf clathrate release? And remember when it was later not a thing? Well, it’s a thing again. Methane is a 23 times more powerful greenhouse gas than CO2.
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So Gorsuch and Kavanaugh … and …??? might dig in and hold that …
only state legislatures — “not federal judges, not state judges, not state governors, not other state officials” — should “bear primary responsibility for setting election rules.”
???
so… if the Pennsylvania GOP were to bring an emergency case - claiming that there were procedural aspects of their election process that were not put in place by the state legislature - but were illegitimately imposed upon the process either by judges or the governor’s office or some board of elections -
… resulting in catastrophic Election Process “procedural impurities” - necessitating the total invalidation of the results - and the selection of Presidential electors by the GOP state legislature …
would the Supreme Court go along with this utter Bull Shit? would they look at an overwhelming will of the people and discard it on the basis of procedural technicalities ?
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Fuck y’all SCOTUS - Americans are killing themselves to vote in a pandemic - that’s how much this election means to us. You fuck with us and watch what happens.
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Under the general constitutional principle that all decisions of constitutionality are determined by which is the most favorable outcome for Republicans.
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We are stunned right now. I can sense it in these posts. But here is the thing:
(1) We outnumber the Republicans
(2) We can outvote them
(3) ALL Mail-in/Absentee ballots should avoid the DeJoy/USPS trap
(4) We have untl this weekend to Early Vote, preferably in-person
(5) We Must outvote the GOP in-person ON Election day
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Exactly right and shocking that there are justices that don’t even have a basic grasp of this simple democratic principle.
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We can and will outvote them.
The question is whether the Barrett Court will respect those votes and let them be counted.
And it’s looking quite grim.
Oh, well, another civil war was bound to happen sometime, maybe this time we can finish the job and not leave it half-done.
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And that would be consistent with other governmental agencies, like the IRS or state tax collection offices that say if your payment is postmarked by a certain date, it is accepted as on time and credited. If the post office is running efficiently, there is no reason for an acceptable ballot to be arriving more than a few days later and should definitely be counted.
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"He said only state legislatures — “not federal judges, not state judges, not state governors, not other state officials” — should “bear primary responsibility for setting election rules.”
The Rs will contest the election result, if, as expected, they lose, mainly in state legislatures. They will also have a contest in the courts, but the main purpose of that branch of their overall contest of the election will be to have the courts agree that state legislatures and the Congress, not the courts, are the controlling legal authorities in federal elections.
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So here is the story that is driving me absolutely insane today - not Barrett, but this
This Constitutional monstrosity called the Electoral College is becoming the source of most of my nightmares currently
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