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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That’s not really the point.
The higher the turnout, the better. It’s easy for them to do a repeat of the 2000 election. But not if there is a wide enough margin.
They’ll declare fraud and a stolen election anyway… The many lawsuits the republicans will fire up, almost assures that at the very least a handfull will get to the supreme court quickly, will be a certainty…
And, unless there is a shift somewhere, the supreme court will proclaim that there is enough suspicion of shenanigans against a trump win that they’ll just decide amongst themselves who will win the election, ignoring the “people’s” vote altogether…
Perhaps the military is willing to hold the supreme court accountable, because I do not see anyone else able to do it right now.
Wouldn’t it be immensely entertaining if the day after the election all current supreme court justices had vanished?
This is all just speculation. Maybe that’s how it will happen, maybe not.
But the more votes and the more states won, the harder it is for them to bullshit their way through.
So everyone should vote.
I’d like to hope that the American people wouldn’t stomach such a brazen coup, but I think that requires Harris to win in a landslide. If it’s even remotely close centrists will shrug and say it’s the will of the people just like they shrugged at Gore.
This is the real thing. It needs to be blasted far and wide that SCOTUS does not have the power to choose. Congress does that on Jan 6th if there’s still a problem. If they pull this shit then we need to be in the streets.
Doesn’t fuckin matter we all vote so hard they can’t lie about it. We’re not Belarus yet.