There’s so much wrong with this. Mini-thread:
1) The Supreme Court doesn’t “step in” and do anything. They only consider actual legal disputes that go through proper procedural channels to reach them, and then only if they choose to grant certiorari (review).
1) The Supreme Court doesn’t “step in” and do anything. They only consider actual legal disputes that go through proper procedural channels to reach them, and then only if they choose to grant certiorari (review).
https://twitter.com/jasonscampbell/status/1324478272734986241
2) Nor can any party simply “take a case” to the Supreme Court. Again: you need standing, a justiciable claim, proper procedure through lower federal courts or state Supreme Court and, preferably, legal support and evidence. Even then it’s up to the Court if they take the case.
3) The President has this childlike view that the Supreme Court can point at him and declare him the winner. That’s not how it works. They didn’t even do that in Bush v. Gore. They ruled on a specific procedure in a crazy-close race. Right or wrong, it was a legit legal dispute.
4) The Supreme Court only considers actual cases or controversies. For example, they might decide the legal dispute over the constitutionality of extended PA ballot-counting deadlines (which likely will not impact enough ballots to swing things). That is a cognizable legal case.
5) I don’t care how right or left or conservative or liberal any justice is, from Barrett on up the line of seniority. There is no way they can or will just declare, “Fraud, Trump wins.” It’s a fever dream.
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