09/24/2020
trump is stacking the SCOTUS because he knows stealing the election is his only way to win.
The article “trump is counting on the Supreme Court to help him steal the election.” states: “As you probably know by now, we are unlikely to learn the winner of the presidential race on the night of Nov. 3. For the Trump campaign, that’s a key part of the plan: to create uncertainty, anger and chaos as the counting of an unprecedented number of mail ballots takes days or weeks; suppressing as many votes as possible; and tossing around unfounded charges of fraud to delegitimize the results.
And that plan, it is becoming increasingly clear, has an endgame: Whatever else happens, whatever the actual results show, President Trump is counting on the Supreme Court to declare him the winner….
The mob told reporters: “We need nine justices. You need that. With the unsolicited millions of ballots that they’re sending, it’s a scam, it’s a hoax, everybody knows that. And the Democrats know it better than anybody else. So you’re going to need nine justices up there, I think it’s going to be very important. Because what they’re doing is a hoax, with the ballots.”
The article states: “trump says that nine justices — which means six conservatives — must be in place so they can invalidate results based on the “scam” and “hoax” by which people have voted.
The vice president said much the same thing on Fox News in only slightly less blatant terms: “With all of the talk about universal, unsolicited mail-in balloting,” Pence said, it’s “all the more reason that we should have nine justices on the Supreme Court to be able to resolve any issue that may arise.””
The mob boss’ incompetence caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, which makes the populace wary of voting in person, then will destroy their way to vote safely—mail in voting, by only accepting in person votes. trump has no decency.
The article “The election that could break America. “ states: “According to sources in the Republican Party at the state and national levels, the Trump campaign is discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority. With a justification based on claims of rampant fraud, Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly. The longer Trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure legislators will feel to act before the safe-harbor deadline expires.
To a modern democratic sensibility, discarding the popular vote for partisan gain looks uncomfortably like a coup, whatever license may be found for it in law. Would Republicans find that position disturbing enough to resist? Would they cede the election before resorting to such a ploy? Trump’s base would exact a high price for that betrayal, and by this point party officials would be invested in a narrative of fraud.
The Trump-campaign legal adviser I spoke with told me the push to appoint electors would be framed in terms of protecting the people’s will. Once committed to the position that the overtime count has been rigged, the adviser said, state lawmakers will want to judge for themselves what the voters intended….
In Pennsylvania, three Republican leaders told me they had already discussed the direct appointment of electors among themselves, and one said he had discussed it with Trump’s national campaign….
Republicans control both legislative chambers in the six most closely contested battleground states. Of those, Arizona and Florida have Republican governors, too. In Michigan, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, the governors are Democrats.”
There will be unrelenting propaganda that the counting of the vote must be finished on November 3rd, even though because of the need for mail in voting—due to trump doing nothing to slow the coronavirus, that will be impossible.
These are the tactics of autocrats. This is how Putin wins 98% of the vote in Russia.
These ghouls will steal the election because the GOP has no decency, and will do anything to maintain power!
The article states: “January 6 comes just after the new Congress is sworn in. Control of the Senate will be crucial to the presidency now.
Pence, as president of the Senate, would hold in his hands two conflicting electoral certificates from each of several swing states. The Twelfth Amendment says only this about what happens next: “The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and the House of Representatives, open all the certificates and the votes shall then be counted.”
Note the passive voice. Who does the counting? Which certificates are counted?
The Trump team would take the position that the constitutional language leaves those questions to the vice president. This means that Pence has the unilateral power to announce his own reelection, and a second term for Trump. Democrats and legal scholars would denounce the self-dealing and point out that Congress filled the gaps in the Twelfth Amendment with the Electoral Count Act, which provides instructions for how to resolve this kind of dispute. The trouble with the instructions is that they are widely considered, in Foley’s words, to be “convoluted and impenetrable,” “confusing and ugly,” and “one of the strangest pieces of statutory language ever enacted by Congress.”
Foley has produced a 25,000-word study in the Loyola University Chicago Law Journal that maps out the paths of the ensuing fight.
The article states: “If Democrats win back the Senate and hold the House, then all roads laid out in the Electoral Count Act lead eventually to a Biden presidency. The reverse applies if Republicans hold the Senate and unexpectedly win back the House. But if Congress remains split, there are conditions in which no decisive outcome is possible—no result that has clear force of law. Each party could cite a plausible reading of the rules in which its candidate has won. There is no tie-breaking vote.
This is the next constitutional crisis, graver than the one three weeks before, because the law and the Constitution provide for no other authority to consult. The Supreme Court may yet intervene, but it may also shy away from another traumatizing encounter with a fundamentally political question….
FOLEY, WHO FORESAW THIS IMPASSE, knows of no solution. He cannot tell you how we avoid it under current law, or how it ends. It is not so much, at this point, a question of law. It is a question of power. Trump has possession of the White House. How far will he push boundaries to keep it, and who will push back? It is the same question the president has posed since the day he took office.”
trump is stacking the SCOTUS because he knows stealing the election is his only way to win. We’ve lived through this nightmare before in 2000. W let some of the voted be counted. trump, since he views himself as a dictator, will nullify the votes of at least 6 swing states. This can’t stand!
The mob boss’ incompetence caused tens of thousands of unnecessary deaths, which makes the populace wary of voting in person, then will invalidate their way to vote safely—mail in voting, by only accepting in person votes.
The GOP Senate is blocking progressive legislation even though they have won 15 million votes than their Democratic counterparts. trump has no decency, and is planning on stealing the election by nullifying the votes in at least 6 swing states.