Millions of Americans will vote this fall – but six Republican justices might have the final say, in a Bush v Gore redux
It’s frighteningly easy to imagine. Kamala Harris wins Georgia. The state elections board, under the sway of its new Trump-aligned commissioners, grinds the certification process to a slow halt to investigate unfounded fraud allegations, spurring the state’s Republican legislature to select its own slate of electors.
Perhaps long lines in Philadelphia lead to the state supreme court holding polls open until everyone has a chance to vote. Before anyone knows the results, Republicans appeal to the US supreme court using the “independent state legislature” (ISL) theory, insisting that the state court overstepped its bounds and the late votes not be counted.
Or maybe an election evening fire at a vote counting center in Milwaukee disrupts balloting. The progressive majority on the state supreme court attempts to establish a new location, but Republicans ask the US supreme court to shut it down.
Maybe that last example was inspired by HBO’s Succession. But in this crazy year, who’s to say it couldn’t happen? The real concern is this: if you think a repeat of Bush v Gore can’t happen this year, think again.
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We didn’t have to imagine any of that.
2000 happened. They just delay long enough in a key state and SCOTUS decides to use the Constitution as toilet paper again.
I’m actually more worried about threats of violence at polling places in swing states, especially in Democrat districts. Drop a smoke bomb and play sounds of gunfire and watch everybody scatter and stay away out of fear of violence. All it would take is that in one or two key polling places in swing states and watch this election shift right to Trump. And it wouldn’t take much. One of them early in the morning in Pennsylvania would have a chilling effect nationwide as word spreads.
This is why we need as many people as possible to vote early and or by mail! My state, Texas, doesn’t allow mail-in voting, but voting early takes so much less time and it’s harder for any sort of shenanigans since it is so many more days.
That’s the whole point of stacking the court with loyalists.
If there’s any avenue to exploit by trumpists to get the validity of the election brought before the court, then absolutely…they will decide in trump’s favor.
I’ve also been thinking and expecting that they will create their own fraud this time. Evidence is what they were missing last time around. So imagine this time, drop boxes get flooded with phony ballots that they themselves put in for Kamala. Then they can point the finger and say “See! We told you so!” and it’s enough for the state legislations not to certify and call things into question.
Last time was recon for this time.
Bigger danger that it goes to the House.
If enough states fail to certify the election so that neither candidate hits 270, it goes to the House where it’s one state, one vote. Red states outnumber blue states.
Fuck.
There’s a danger that US citizens enact term limits for justices before the executive or legislative branches.
6 months. If after 6 months of sitting on your ass you can’t tell right from wrong, fuck you, you’re out…let me demonstrate… Epstein: pedophile. That was like 3 milliseconds… Trump: shit get rid of him he’s all sorts of wrong ew! Ew! That was like 3 nanoseconds. Should women get to choose? Yes. That was a no brainier. Juanita’s tree is growing over the neighbors yard and the neighbor keeps eating the apples…ohhh there’s precedent here. I must research…yes it’s totally legal. Juanita must not know much about trees because she planted it too close to the fence. That was complicated, 3 seconds, I will need 6 months to recover and continue judging these cases, thanks!
Bush V Gore?
Angry orange hopes so, anyway.
Successful fuckery with this election will result in widespread violence between neighbors. It could last weeks or longer.
Be ready for neighborhood level violence. Have a plan for you and your family, if even to cover just a few weeks (food, water, electricity, fuel, ammo, barricade materials).
Conservatives are openly trying to fuck this election as hard as they can. The only question is if they will succeed. If they do, neighbors will kill neighbors over it. It will not be peaceful like the time conservatives brazenly stole Florida’s votes and gave them to Bush. That was a surprise to the normal people. This will be no surprise at all. This will result in bloodshed.
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