There is no rule that says ballots must be counted on November 3.
Trump has no authority to make up such a rule.
The courts have no authority to enforce such a rule.
Trump is trying to freak you out. Don't let him do it.
Focus on turning out the vote and ignore the bluster.
Here is the opinion. The issue is over whether ballots arriving after November 3 will be counted.
This is NOT the same as saying people who vote on election day may not have their votes counted if the counting isn't finished by midnight. assets.documentcloud.org/documents/7276…
3 U.S. Code § 5: States have five weeks to certify their elections, work out any controversies, and choose their electors.
An originalist can't insist that the results of an election be known on the night of the election. In the 18th century, without telephones or the Internet, figuring out who won a presidential election would take time.
I finished reading this opinion. Admittedly, I read it quickly.
The rationale behind the ruling is that state legislatures decide the rules that govern the election, and that federal courts should not rewrite the rules.
The counting of ballots in Florida was a mess. The election was a mess. The ballots were a mess.
The Florida Supreme Court ordered a recount.
The question put to the Supreme Court was whether the Florida Supreme Court overstepped its role by ordering a recount.
The question put to the Supreme Court was: Did the Florida Supreme Court violate Article II Section 1 Clause 2 of the U.S. Constitution by making new election law?
Do standardless manual recounts violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Constitution?
One of the rationales given by the Supreme Court was that the Florida Supreme Court was basically making a new election law.
Kavanaugh in the Wisconsin case agreed that the federal district court has no business changing state rules. (See the last sentence)
According to Kavanaugh's reasoning, what Bush v. Gore and the Wisconsin case have in common is that in both cases, courts were telling the states that they should do things differently.
He thinks state legislatures should decide.
Correct. The idea is that state legislatures should be able to do whatever they wish.
Beginning in 1954, federal courts began intervening and telling states that they had to stop doing things like suppressing votes and passing racial segregation laws.
1954 was the year the Supreme Court decided Brown v. Board, the case that held racial segregation unconstitutional. The liberal Warren court then forced states to do lots of things like stop killing black men and provide all people equal protection and due process.
Conservatives HATED that. They said it violated states' rights. They said courts should stop intervening and let states do whatever they want.
Roberts believes that if states want to make voting hard, that's up to the states.
The moral: Local elections matter.
Here we have Trump making up laws. Just inventing them right out of thin air.
Trump does not have the power to wish laws into existence.
(Before you tell me that Kavanaugh said he can, please scroll up and read)
Ballots are counted according to laws passed by state legislatures. Kavanaugh said Wisconsin must follow the Wisconsin statute, that says ballots that arrive after election day don't count. (Other states also have this law)
After Trump walked out of the 60 Minutes interview, Kayleigh McEnany brought a bound book and called it Trump's "health plan."
Lesley Stahl: "It was heavy. Filled with executive orders, congressional initiatives, but no comprehensive health plan."
I like the part where Trump insists if the Supreme Court overturns the ACA, people with preexisting conditions will still be covered because "a new plan will happen" and "we won't do anything unless we have preexisting conditions covered."
The snake oil salesman says "trust me."
This is exactly what I thought👇
It's the Field of Dreams Health Care Plan: Trump will wish it, and it will come.
(I'm visualizing Trump with his fingers on his forehead and his eyes closed as he wishes really hard for the health care plan to happen.)
The GOP attitude toward the Great Depression was like the Trump-FOX attitude toward Covid: It's not the role of government to solve these problems, which should be left to private interests.
Of course, Biden is going because Georgia's turning blue.
When he came to office, the country was in the Great Depression. The level of income inequality made democracy almost impossible. There was no social security, no regulatory agencies, almost no middle class.
This question came to me through the “Ask Teri” tab on my blog 👇
Short answer: Yes there is oversight. Elections are regulated by statute, and the statutes provide for oversight. Each state has its own processes.
Shorter answer: Get involved!
1/ In CA, for example, the precinct “inspector” (person in charge of the polling place) and the poll workers count the ballots according to detailed instructions. The number of ballots is then reconciled between those voted and those unused so that each ballot is accounted for.
2/ Observers are allowed to watch the counting and recording of votes.
The inspector keeps a copy of the total so he or she can verify the number against the number used in the final state tally.
And who are these inspectors? Regular people who apply. My husband is one.
I couldn't resist. I'm listening to the 60 Minutes segment Trump posted.
Goodness. Stahl asks Trump if he is ready for tough questions. He fusses about wanting her to be fair. He says, “You don’t ask Biden tough questions.”
My teenager: “He sounds like a three-year-old.”
He's in his own made-up world.
"We had the best economy. Things were coming together. . .there was going to be unity. Then we got hit with the plague. . . we closed it up and I saved millions of lives."
Unity? Before the virus was his impeachment trial.
Two key lies launched Trump into politics: Birtherism and "I am a successful businessman." It worked! He lied. People repeated the lies. Then enough people believed them.
He literally has no other way to "govern" or campaign.
This is nothing new. It's as old as written history.
In the middle ages, one of the lies was Jewish blood libel.
Want to go farther back? Let's talk about Darius I of Persia (522 BCE to 486 BCE)