The fundamental argument I see in the Texas filing is that Texas claims election process changes by the state executives named in the suit were unconstitutional and undermine their federal rights as a state who followed the constitution faithfully regarding creation of election law. Effectively they are claiming the other states ignored the constitution and thus are causing injury to states that did follow.
With the precedent this will set (I haven’t seen other existing precedents for states bringing suits against others in an election mentioned yet), is that it will drive accountability across the state AG’s and legislatures to ensure constitutionality in federal elections with this only being the beginning. Congressional senate at 50/50 in 2032 election? Just sue the state that changed its rules or where rampant fraud was found.
I don’t know what power the senate or house in DC has over state legislatures or if they are considered completely independent from the state level governments, but I do see a convention of state legislatures to work on preventing this from happening again in the future. The biggest question to be asked: are the punishments for the rogue states who changed election laws by EO (and not through legislature) large enough to deter this from happening in the future? How do we keep a few rogue governors/SOS (whether R or D, I don’t care) from doing this ever again? What is the proactive check and balance across the states to avoid every election going to the Supreme Court because some bad acting state executives want to poison the well 6 months before the election? I feel like Texas’ suit is going to set more than just election precedent, it’s going to spark the drive for changing the federal structure in a way that gives more powers back to the state legislatures because the federal and state governments are independent and the constitution says state legislatures choose electors.
you are part of the reason why the government thinks they have the right to do what they are doing now.
Just wait until driving your own car is illegal for health reasons.
The writing is on the wall. Unconstitutional gubernatorial rulings are just turned over to the “health department” for “the good of the people”.
Mandate your state and local government get their “health department” under control.
Lord, may the prayers, voices and hands of patriots be guided today such that the justice and light we seek, Your light, may be seen by all not only in this country but across the world. We are forever grateful that You have set the United States of America as an example of Your goodness, and with this prayer may it continue to be a beacon of freedom for all oppressed domestically and abroad. -Amen
“Finally, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his might. Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.”
Ephesians 6:10-11 ASV
Brian Kemp was Secretary of State in GA at the time...and there were claims of voter suppression, etc. after her loss in 2018. Eventually she conceded 10 days after election day. Maybe there was an opportunity with "voter suppression" out of the way in 2020 with mail in voting and the Dem machine ramped up to "recruit" and "get out the vote" to tune of a few hundred thousand voters.
A few observations about this and I think some of it plays into how Trump is handling 2020...
- You have not heard about "voter suppression" much if at all in this election, one of the very large Dem complaints/talking points in past elections. Trump allowed the mail in mess to happen knowing Dems would overplay their hands obviously.
- Trump allowed the pendulum to swing completely to the other side by not issuing any EO to ban mail in voting or other state-level decisions or to mandate voter ID to prevent fraud. A very huge gamble in my eyes, but I trust Trump's judgement here.
- Trump instead focused on detection methods and created intelligence groups to monitor for fraud. 2018 was a dry run and they used it evaluate and hone their detection methods. He was willing to give away the House because RINO's were blocking his agenda anyways. It also resulted in Paul Ryan resigning (imagine if RINO's stuck around 2018-2020).
- Trump was very outspoken regarding mail in ballots, but routinely said he had no problem with the absentee ballot process. I think this was a misdirection leading Dems to keep their absentee ballot fraud machine in motion, if not increase their absentee voting fraud. Again, drove the opposition to over play their hand into Trump's intelligence trap.
- Some time in October before the 2020 election, both Trump and Pence became outwardly and firmly confident the election was theres. So far that Pence was laughing and said "We found the plug" (in the swamp) and Trump said "if you would have asked me a few weeks ago if we'd win, I would have said I was concerned. Now I know we are going to win!" My belief is they had already seen signs of the fraud that was going to take place and it was following predictable patterns from 2018.
- Trump is singling out Kemp & GA SOS because he knows their involvement with [some other missing piece that I haven't figured out yet]. Some have speculated that Kemp got into governorship through similar nefarious means and that he doesn't want to audit the vote based off what it will uncover. This is the biggest key to GA in 2020 and if it falls it will be the first domino.
Why don’t we let the popular vote rule federally like we do for local elections? Because the founding fathers saw the risk of a malicious entity subverting the election and the will of the people. This is why there are many electoral steps for the Presidential election beyond citizens simply tallying a popular vote.
The leftists in this country attack the EC by “saying” every person should have an equal vote in the popular voice (knowing how easily a few 100k fraudulent votes can be produced), but what they are actually promoting is abolishing the EC process itself. The process of local boards certifying results, state legislatures certifying results, states fully certifying results at the federal congressional level, court oversight at every level up through the supreme court. One could argue this same thing could be done for a popular vote, but that only assumes each individual vote would follow the same certification process as one electoral vote representing hundreds of thousands of people. Imagine today’s conflict of voter fraud playing out without the defense of the electoral college on a state by state basis.
The founding fathers recognized that armed revolution and the continual threat thereof would be counter productive to society (but never fully absolved the country of that by implementing the 2A, nonetheless). This is why they allowed nonviolent voting to reset government to the will of the people every few years. The electoral college process is much more than just “proportional representation of the states” which is what people tend to think its sole purpose is. The first step in the “mini revolution” is every citizen casting their vote. If at any point fraud or illegitimacy manifests, the many steps in the electoral college certification provide for escalation and an “off ramp” for resolution without a single revolutionary shot being fired. All the way up to decertifying at the Supreme Court.
If the will of the founding fathers was to allow these nonviolent revolutions at the ballot box every few years, the resulting certification process had to be bulletproof to not allow an illegitimate result. We are seeing that play out before our very eyes.
I’m convinced the founding fathers would look at what we are going through today and scoff at the calls for violence because of lower court rulings. Have faith in the process. Trust the process they put forth and trust that Trump will do everything he can under the guidance of God to play out this process nonviolently. When the people/parties/politicians of today can’t be trusted, all we have left is the process our brilliant framers implemented. The hand of God will prevail.
While endless scrolling when I reach the point of the next line of new content I see a repeat of many posts that I may not have upvoted previously (and some I have) before getting to the new content. I have the setting “hide posts I upvote” on.
I know a simple solution is to upvote everything so it auto hides (but I hate to say it, some posts just will not earn an upvote!), but is there a way avoid seeing the same post multiple times while endless scrolling?
Change my mind.
No more of these clowns “telling observers to go home at 10:30”, promoting their business or passing off USB drives in plain sight.