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aparition42 15 points ago +15 / -0

Exactly. It's the opposition that wants to convince everyone that "certification" means it's all over.

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prayinpede 2 points ago +2 / -0

Does this mean biden will disappear, grow a beard, then release a fake movie about climate change. He will tgen go on tour telling everyone by 2012 the polar bears wont have anywhere to live

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aparition42 3 points ago +3 / -0

I'm sure he'll disappear. I'm not so sure he'll come back to release a movie. There will probably be a few quick books published to launder money, though.

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dataonly 15 points ago +15 / -0

They had to certify prior to filing the court challenge.

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z89101 7 points ago +7 / -0

This x 100 - loss must occur

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POTUS_DonnieJ 11 points ago +11 / -0

Underrated post.

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vicentezo04 6 points ago +6 / -0

So based on this, Trump's legal challenges are already ahead of schedule...

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z89101 10 points ago +10 / -0

STICKY for the Doomers please

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kono_hito_wa 8 points ago +8 / -0

NO NO NO NO NO! MSM tells me this is "unprecedented"! Ergo, there is no precedent. Ever! Gosh.

Are there that many people who didn't live through Gore's attempt to steal the election through illegal recounts or do they all just pretend it never happened?

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jomten [S] 3 points ago +3 / -0

Bonus points, the opinions that the SC issued on the case.

Clarence "Morpheus" Thomas ruled in favor of the equal protection argument, AND the state SC overreach in changing laws outside the legislature.

Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett all helped create those arguments

And I quote- https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/531/98/#103

"CHIEF JUSTICE REHNQUIST, with whom JUSTICE SCALIA and JUSTICE THOMAS join, concurring.

We join the per curiam opinion. We write separately because we believe there are additional grounds that require us to reverse the Florida Supreme Court's decision.

We deal here not with an ordinary election, but with an election for the President of the United States. In Burroughs v. United States, 290 U. S. 534, 545 (1934), we said:

"While presidential electors are not officers or agents of the federal government (In re Green, 134 U. S. 377, 379 [(1890)]), they exercise federal functions under, and discharge duties in virtue of authority conferred by, the Constitution of the United States. The President is vested with the executive power of the nation. The importance of his election and the vital character of its relationship to and effect upon the welfare and safety of the whole people cannot be too strongly stated."

Blablabla, but wait, WHATS THIS??

"But there are a few exceptional cases in which the Constitution imposes a duty or confers a power on a particular branch of a State's government. This is one of them. Article II, § 1, cl. 2, provides that "[e]ach State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct," electors for President and Vice President. (Emphasis added.)

Thus, the text of the election law itself, AND NOT JUST ITS INTERPRETATION BY THE COURTS OF THE STATES, takes on independent significance."

ACB Clerked for Scalia, Im assuming(hoping) that she shares this opinion.

Gorsuch both helped this case go forward, and clerked for Kennedy, who was in the 5-4 majority

Kavanaugh, my man, wrote an opinion shortly before the election which I find beautiful, given the events that transpired. Heres some choice excerpts

https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/20pdf/20a66_new_m6io.pdf#page=24

"This Court has repeatedly emphasized that federal courts ordinarily should not alter state election laws in the period close to an election—a principle often referred to as the Purcell principle."

"It is one thing for state legislatures to alter their own election rules in the late innings and to bear the responsibility for any unintended consequences. It is quite another thing for a federal district court to swoop in and alter carefully considered and democratically enacted state election rules when an election is imminent"

"Second, even apart from the late timing, the District Court misapprehended the limited role of the federal courts in COVID–19 cases. This Court has consistently stated that the Constitution principally entrusts politically accountable state legislatures, not unelected federal judges, with the responsibility to address the health and safety of the people during the COVID–19 pandemic"

"Third, the District Court did not sufficiently appreciate the significance of election deadlines... "

"To state the obvious, a State cannot conduct an election without deadlines. It follows that the right to vote is not substantially burdened by a requirement that voters “act in a timely fashion if they wish to express their views in the voting booth.” Burdick, 504 U. S., at 438. For the same reason, the right to vote is not substantially burdened by a requirement that voters act in a timely fashion if they wish to cast an absentee ballot. Either way, voters need to vote on time."

"For important reasons, most States, including Wisconsin, require absentee ballots to be received by election day, not just mailed by election day. Those States want to avoid the chaos and suspicions of impropriety that can ensue if thousands of absentee ballots flow in after election day and potentially flip the results of an election. And those States also want to be able to definitively announce the results of the election on election night, or as soon as possible thereafter"

Also of note, if Democrats argued that "tens to hundreds of thousands" of absentee votes would arrive late by mail, why is it that when we have whistleblowers swearing that post office managers backdated postmarks, do we have less than 1000?

"The dissent insists, however, that “tens of thousands” and perhaps even 100,000 votes will not be counted if we do not reinstate the District Court’s extension of the deadline. Post, at 3 (opinion of KAGAN, J.). The District Court arrived at the same prediction, but it was a prediction, not a finding of fact. Indeed, the District Court did not include this prediction in the facts section of its opinion.

For its part, the dissent makes the same prediction by looking at the number of absentee ballots that arrived after the primary election day in April. "

So can we hold the liberal court members to be suspicious of the abnormally low amount of late votes?

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TwitterIsTrash 6 points ago +6 / -0

My anxiety can’t take that much longer. I’m tired of waking up and a senile communist still prancing around claiming to be my next president. Make the nightmare stop.

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jomten [S] 2 points ago +2 / -0

I was rereading Art of War the other day, and saw something that stuck with me

https://suntzusaid.com/book/7/36

"When you surround an army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard."

"This does not mean that the enemy is to be allowed to escape. The object, as Tu Mu puts it, is "to make him believe that there is a road to safety, and thus prevent his fighting with the courage of despair." Tu Mu adds pleasantly: "After that, you may crush him."

"Ch`en Hao quotes the saying: "Birds and beasts when brought to bay will use their claws and teeth." Chang Yu says: "If your adversary has burned his boats and destroyed his cooking-pots, and is ready to stake all on the issue of a battle, he must not be pushed to extremities."

They burned their boats (media credibility, social media objectivity, obvious cheating at 4 AM), let antifa and the lefties think its over. Better for our businesses anyways not to have them rioting all over

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Drinkup4 5 points ago +5 / -0

The best part of the Al Gore saga was that he was VP. So he had to preside over the senate as Bush was certified.

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HandsomeBoy 1 point ago +4 / -3

DAS RITE!

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