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It is difficult to overstate how brazenly villainous the GOP has become in its pursuit of electoral larceny. It's one thing to offer a pretense of responsible civic action—what we have here instead is 18 red states saying, "Look, we simply don't want votes for Biden to count."
They won’t succeed, though the fact that they’re even trying is scandalous in itself. The fact that they’ve gotten this far, the fact that our reps have materially boosted this effort despite the damage it's doing to our social fabric transcends scandal. It's seditious debasement
The 18 states aren't offering an elaborate argument about hacked voting systems or whatever. Their ask is depressingly simple: that the Court invalidate the votes of 4 states—by pure coincidence, the 4 are crucial to Biden’s victory—because these states expanded mail-in voting.
That’s seriously it.
The case Trump is calling "The Big One" just involves the following demonstration of effective governance: first, (a) catastrophically mismanaging the pandemic, then (b) leveraging that failure into a legal technique by which to steal a presidential election
The case Trump is calling "The Big One" just involves the following demonstration of effective governance: first, (a) catastrophically mismanaging the pandemic, then (b) leveraging that failure into a legal technique by which to steal a presidential election
In the Year of Covid, Trump wants to steal an election by problematizing the only form of socially distanced voting we had.
If the Supreme Court decides to hear the case (which seems unlikely), the only acceptable result is 9–0.
If the Supreme Court decides to hear the case (which seems unlikely), the only acceptable result is 9–0.
It doesn’t matter that this is "his" Court. It doesn’t matter that, in nearly any other case, the numbers would favor the president.
If there is a single justice that looks at this clownshow and grants it legal legitimacy it will be immediate grounds for impeachment.
If there is a single justice that looks at this clownshow and grants it legal legitimacy it will be immediate grounds for impeachment.
Powerful counterargument that I had not yet considered.
Very happy to report that this conversation continued swimmingly. I think I clinched it though with a heartfelt anecdote.
