Prof. Vladeck's excoriation of the latest Scotus outrage points out laudably the dangers of Court interference in ELECTION issues seemingly beyond its reach, with the PA Supreme Court's "naked ballot" decision in its crosshairs. What we are seeing here is the likelihood of tRump/GOP "They cheated!" lawsuits flowing up to Scotus as election results show tRump losing, and the danger that the "partisan hack" majority, in tRump's view, can somehow contrive to either award tRump a win when he clearly lost, or delegitimates a Harris win by ruling in favor of GOP suits that close the gap but doesn't take a majority EV win away.
Whatever, but the Court has signaled loudly and clearly that they are open to taking on election cases normally within the province of state courts, as in the matter of *Bush v Gore*, and will try to interfere with "time, place, and manner" of state jurisdiction over elections. Prof. Vladeck is spot on when he noted that the VA decision, and possibly a PA ruling, come with NO convincing explanation...Scotus decides because it can, end of.
Unless I missed it — maybe! — David didn’t quite actually explain how we got to this point. So two fun facts I’m going to keep kind of simple because details would make one feel even worse than today’s post does. In no particular order.
The vine is that we’re facing a fork in the road this election. But maybe we passed that fork when the Democrats decided 30+ years ago that they wanted to be less alienating to Republican special interests. I’ve touched on this often so need to go over it again now.
More relevant as to how Trump can be elected: most voters are committed to their party. Once Republican primary voters picked Trump in 2016 and he was elected, he became the party and vice versa. If one’s a Republican voter, one’s a Trump voter full stop. (Not a defense for voting for Trump; there is none.)
Could you please, PLEASE stop highlighting pictures of tfg? We don't need to be reminded what he looks like; we already know. I'd be happier with almost anything else, including an actual pig rolling in the mud!
"It’s a sobering reminder of how Trump’s aggressive strategy of delay succeeded in avoiding accountability for his alleged criminal conduct." But moreso a reminder of the worthless pile of human butthair that is republican J. Merrick Garland. If our democracy ends that failure will be laid right at the feet of Biden sadly.
Prof. Vladeck's excoriation of the latest Scotus outrage points out laudably the dangers of Court interference in ELECTION issues seemingly beyond its reach, with the PA Supreme Court's "naked ballot" decision in its crosshairs. What we are seeing here is the likelihood of tRump/GOP "They cheated!" lawsuits flowing up to Scotus as election results show tRump losing, and the danger that the "partisan hack" majority, in tRump's view, can somehow contrive to either award tRump a win when he clearly lost, or delegitimates a Harris win by ruling in favor of GOP suits that close the gap but doesn't take a majority EV win away.
Whatever, but the Court has signaled loudly and clearly that they are open to taking on election cases normally within the province of state courts, as in the matter of *Bush v Gore*, and will try to interfere with "time, place, and manner" of state jurisdiction over elections. Prof. Vladeck is spot on when he noted that the VA decision, and possibly a PA ruling, come with NO convincing explanation...Scotus decides because it can, end of.
Unless I missed it — maybe! — David didn’t quite actually explain how we got to this point. So two fun facts I’m going to keep kind of simple because details would make one feel even worse than today’s post does. In no particular order.
The vine is that we’re facing a fork in the road this election. But maybe we passed that fork when the Democrats decided 30+ years ago that they wanted to be less alienating to Republican special interests. I’ve touched on this often so need to go over it again now.
More relevant as to how Trump can be elected: most voters are committed to their party. Once Republican primary voters picked Trump in 2016 and he was elected, he became the party and vice versa. If one’s a Republican voter, one’s a Trump voter full stop. (Not a defense for voting for Trump; there is none.)
50 years and hundreds of billions of $ behind the weaponization of disinformation. That's how we got here.
Could you please, PLEASE stop highlighting pictures of tfg? We don't need to be reminded what he looks like; we already know. I'd be happier with almost anything else, including an actual pig rolling in the mud!
Both his face and voice are absolutely repulsive. I can’t listen to him anymore. His voice immediately sets off nausea in my system.
"It’s a sobering reminder of how Trump’s aggressive strategy of delay succeeded in avoiding accountability for his alleged criminal conduct." But moreso a reminder of the worthless pile of human butthair that is republican J. Merrick Garland. If our democracy ends that failure will be laid right at the feet of Biden sadly.
Biden didn’t weaponize the Department of Justice and he didn’t ask Garland to slow walk anything. The failure is Garland’s.