• just_another_person@lemmy.worldOP
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    20 hours ago

    SCOTUS can’t overrule an election outcome unless there is contention and proof. Won’t happen. Her numbers are too good, and that’s taking into account that polls only reach old people.

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      14 hours ago

      SCOTUS can’t overrule an election outcome unless there is contention and proof

      They can do whatever the fuck a majority of them wants. That’s why Mitch McConnell considered stacking the courts much more important to his legacy than electoral success.

      The way the broken system works, they have the final say on ANYTHING and can only be overruled by the by now impossible constitutional amendment process.

      No matter how nonsensical or blatantly corrupt their reasoning, their judgment is effectively final.

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        11 hours ago

        If SC tries to force an illegitimate Trump presidency down our throats there will be hell to pay. Biden might also need to use some of his newly-acquired presidential immunity superpowers and ship the SC to Antarctica to do science research for the rest of their tenure.

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          If SC tries to force an illegitimate Trump presidency down our throats there will be hell to pay

          There should be but there won’t. Just like when they forced an illegitimate Bush president down people’s throats in 2000 and the powerful ignored the millions decrying THAT injustice.

          Biden might also need to use some of his newly-acquired presidential immunity superpowers and ship the SC to Antarctica to do science research for the rest of their tenure.

          Even if he’d ever do such a thing (or indeed ANYTHING that violates the rules and norms that Neoliberals consider much more important than any outcomes of following or breaking them), they made sure that what constitutes “official acts” is up to the SCOTUS themselves, thus effectively making any executive overreach by Biden just as illegal as before and any by Trump the law of the land.

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            SC rulings from Antarctica aren’t gonna hold much more weight.

            This isn’t Bush vs. Gore, this would be an insurrection against democracy and that will be plain to see to the majority of Americans.

            In any case, just fucking vote folks.

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              This isn’t Bush vs. Gore, this would be an insurrection against democracy

              As was Bush v. Gore.

              that will be plain to see to the majority of Americans.

              As was Bush v. Gore.

              You’re simultaneously underestimating the establishment’s ability to wag the dog and overestimating how willing the Dem leadership are to fight against great injustices, especially ones that are technically within the obsolete guidelines established in the 1700s.

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                8 hours ago

                It wasn’t an insurrection. The sentiment was “whatever, there’s always the next election”. And eventually we voted Obama in. That’s how the resilience of democracy is supposed to work. A shit hand one election doesn’t doom the country for eternity because when people get sick enough of it they can change things and vote differently. That was clearly Gore’s sentiment as well when he conceded to keep the country moving.

                That sentiment no longer exists. This is different. Conceding is not some patriotic sacrifice to keep the country moving. It is the end of democracy and there is no coming back.

                Neither of us really know how things will manifest, but this is not 24 years ago, the stakes are higher and the situation is far different.

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      20 hours ago

      Bush v. Gore. Contention, no proof. Since when has this SCOTUS ever shied from doing something it “can’t”? Roe v. Wade. Presidents are kings.

      Sorry bud, it’s not looking good, and believe you me will I be voting. But it’s not even a question that they’re trying coup 2.0.

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          It is exactly the same thing. Jeb Bush and W. Bush’s campaign manager rigged the vote in Florida, same as Trump loyalists will do this cycle.

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          Uh-huh. Ignore everything else that’s happened just this year, then. Ignore all the obvious preparations they’ve been making, how they’ve stacked the courts. It’s gonna work out great.