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Patriotfrog 37 points ago +41 / -4

1878 Throckmorton SCOTUS case set precedent for that to happen. Trump wins by default.

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EpicTrump 4 points ago +4 / -0

KEK! Public educashun is grate, I don’t no whut you talkin about.

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Wyopepe 8 points ago +9 / -1

fraud vitiates everything

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Wyopepe 9 points ago +9 / -0

Yes.

Take a peek at 11.

If fraud is involved, the contract is essentially broken.

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Shroudedf8 3 points ago +3 / -0

So that would then require a new vote rather than defaulting to GEOTUS, right? Since his batch of cookies would be tossed as well.

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Skogin 1 point ago +1 / -0

I might just nibble a part of every cookie...

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BlondeBombshell88 2 points ago +3 / -1

Yes you can. Our legal system is based on precedent. There is no expiration dates for precedent... unless a newer case comes and reverses it somehow.

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ExpressMess 2 points ago +2 / -0

Very true.... But why don't we see hangings for treason anymore. IMO once a law has sat to long without use it becomes questionable.

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BlondeBombshell88 0 points ago +1 / -1

I don't believe it's sat around long though. It might be the prime case used in all fraud cases. Not completely sure, but it could be.

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ExpressMess 0 points ago +3 / -3

U.S. Supreme Court United States v. Throckmorton, 98 U.S. 61 (1878)

  1. It is essential to a bill in chancery on behalf of the United States to set aside a patent for lands or the final confirmation of a Mexican grant that it shall appear in some way, without regard to the special form, that the Attorney General has brought it himself or given such authority for bringing it as will make him officially responsible therefor through all stages of its presentation.

  2. The frauds for which a bill to set aside a judgment or a decree between the same parties, rendered by a court of competent jurisdiction, will be sustained are those which are extrinsic or collateral to the matter tried, and not a fraud which was in issue in the former suit.

  3. The cases where such relief has been granted are those in which, by fraud or deception practiced on the unsuccessful party, he has been prevented from exhibiting fully his case, by reason of which there has never been a real contest before the court of the subject matter of the suit.

  4. The circuit court of the United States has now no original jurisdiction to reform surveys made by the land department of confirmed Mexican grants in California.

So how exactly does this work for the presidency?

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Wallypip3 6 points ago +6 / -0

Post the other 7 points up to 11 now.