As I just reported on air in our Election Coverage...
What we just heard from The President is horrific for democracy.
Mark down the time: The President of the United States declaring, We want all voting to stop.
Mark down the time: The President of the United States declaring, We want all voting to stop.
Constitutionally, that is *not* how it works. It is wrong, legally.
This is important for the days ahead:
Legally, what The President just told the nation is worthless.
As a legal matter, those remarks could be written in *invisible ink.*
Legally, what The President just told the nation is worthless.
As a legal matter, those remarks could be written in *invisible ink.*
Elections, and the counting and processing of ballots, is not controlled legally by The President.
But this could become relevant.
*If* a state (or several states) has a margin that relates to certain types of ballots, like the counting of mail ballots, those cases can go up through appeals to the Supreme Court.
*If* a state (or several states) has a margin that relates to certain types of ballots, like the counting of mail ballots, those cases can go up through appeals to the Supreme Court.
As recently as last Wednesday, for mail ballots in Pennsylvania, a court majority suggested that potentially ballots counted after today might be tossed...
(That would be a change, a new ruling. But we've seen that foreshadowed.)
(That would be a change, a new ruling. But we've seen that foreshadowed.)
So The President addressing the nation, here at this late hour, and saying that he wants the votes stopped -- declaring himself the winner, this is serious business.
He said falsely, 'We did win the election.'
He said that falsely, a big problem as this all plays out.
He said that falsely, a big problem as this all plays out.
Now *if* there's a clear margin, when the votes are counted, [of Biden winning by] several states, that would be much harder to find standing to get before the Supreme Court....
But if it's one state, and relates to mail ballots, there are ways to get before the Court...
So we have to keep an open mind, we respect the rule of law and report out *whatever* the courts decide, we keep an open mind about all the states telling us the votes...
But we *cannot* keep open mind, or sound neutral, about the falsehoods that came out of the White House.
It pains me to say it, but The President was lying about the election results, and telling *our democracy* he doesn't believe in democracy - 'Stop the voting.'
Legally, what The President just told the nation is worthless.
Reporting live after Pres. Trump’s election night remarks:
Reporting live after Pres. Trump’s election night remarks:
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