Trump's Post Election Fallout: Legal & Obstruction actions

[FrantzHardySwag]

Bill Barr and the DOJ now getting involved. What an absolute joke. 

 

[RedDenver]

2 minutes ago, FrantzHardySwag said:

Bill Barr and the DOJ now getting involved. What an absolute joke. 

 

 

[Moiraine]

19 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

 

 

 

 

Guess we'll see if they're willing to make some up this time and find a friendly judge.

[RedDenver]

State Legislatures Can’t Ignore the Popular Vote in Appointing Electors

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As the counting of votes continues, an anti-democratic suggestion has taken hold among supporters of President Trump that Republican state legislatures could prevent a Biden presidency by directly appointing Trump-supporting electors to the Electoral College, rather than by sending a delegation of electors in line with their states’ popular votes. “GET READY TO DO YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL DUTY,” tweeted conservative radio host Mark Levin on Nov. 5. Soon, Donald Trump, Jr., retweeted Levin. Later that night, Sen. Lindsey Graham joined the bandwagon. The idea is not entirely new: In September, Barton Gellman in The Atlantic reported that some state legislators were already considering this gambit—though Pennsylvania Republicans soon rejected the notion.

 

There are a host of clear legal problems with this suggestion, including that electors are required to be selected on Election Day, not later (absent circumstances not present here), and that due process requires a state to give effect to the fundamental right to vote for president. What’s more, such a move would justifiably be seen by much of the public as a coup. It is a terrible idea.

 

 

[Moiraine]

The GOP Georgia senators whose elections are going to runoff are both calling for the GOP secretary of state to resign because he's following Georgia law. This party hasn't hit the anti-democracy bottom yet. They will try everything they can think of.

[Moiraine]

25 minutes ago, RedDenver said:

State Legislatures Can’t Ignore the Popular Vote in Appointing Electors

 

 

 

There are a lot of arguments in there about the Supreme Court's views. Big hypothetical again, but if it ever managed to make its way to the Supreme Court I'd give them a 40% chance to completely flip the view they had before, because they are partisans. They'd probably try to argue states rights, or some such, and leave it up to the states to decide. There isn't a lot of reason expect for them to make the correct or just decision.

[RedDenver]

2 minutes ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

Big hypothetical again, but if it ever managed to make its way to the Supreme Court I'd give them a 40% chance to completely flip the view they had before, because they are partisans. They'd probably try to argue states rights, or some such, and leave it up to the states to decide.

That's possible although I think very unlikely, but as the tweets I posted above describe, it can't take effect this election without concurrence by both the Senate and the House.

[FrantzHardySwag]

So the full text reads as "I'm doing this to please Trump". 

[Moiraine]

[Moiraine]

del

[DevoHusker]

 

[Moiraine]

47 minutes ago, DevoHusker said:

 

 

 

Guess we should recount every state

[TGHusker]

1 hour ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

Guess we should recount every state

Don’t give them any ideas!!! Trump might do anything to prolong the process 

[Moiraine]

11 minutes ago, TGHusker said:

Don’t give them any ideas!!! Trump might do anything to prolong the process 

 

 

haha, ya. I need a cryo chamber to fall asleep in for 2.5 months. 

[TGHusker]

10 hours ago, Moiraine said:

 

 

haha, ya. I need a cryo chamber to fall asleep in for 2.5 months.