The US Supreme Court is not going to overturn the election result.
Biden'ss ahead in states worth 306 electoral votes. In all likelihood, Trump would have to win multiple different cases about different states.
Winning isn't enough for Trump, though. Many of the claims the Trump Campaign is making are fairly minimal, eg claiming observers at the count in Pennsylvania should have been allowed to stand closer.
Even if a court finds for Trump on the count observers, the remedy isn't going to be "throw out 50,000 votes for Biden". So he'd still lose.
The Trump campaign has to win multiple court cases AND get orders to throw out thousands of votes in each case that they win.
Some of the Trump Campaign's claims are claims of fact. In Nevada, for example, they claim some Trump votes were wrongly rejected by electronic counting machines.
If that's true, it'll be easy to check and remedy. But if a court finds it's false, it's not the sort of thing you can appeal to a higher court unless the first court made a "clear error".
At present, the Trump Campaign has no claims that have a likely route to the Supreme Court, no claims that are likely to result in a court disqualifying significant numbers of votes, and frankly no claims they're particularly likely to win.
And, remember, they need to win several, by December 14 when the Electoral College votes.
Bush v Gore in 2000 was about a few hundred votes which might or might not be invalid, in one state, so it fell to the Supreme Court. This isn't 2000.
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8 Nov
Online MAGA and QAnon spaces aren't sad right now. They aren't angry. They're jubilant. They think they won the election.
Hang out in Trumpist forums and they're excited. Any day now, Trump will be announced as the winner, all the Libs will cry, riot and whine, and MAGA will rule.
The lightest version of this is the Trumpers who are convinced that SCOTUS is about to order "illegal votes" thrown out and toss the race to Trump in swing states.
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5 Nov
I just discovered the Electoral College doesn't even meet in person! This is clearly a bullshit system.
If you're going to have an Electoral College, have a damned Electoral College! Fly in the Electors. Let it meet in style in, like, the House Chamber.
Let that dude who announces the President at the State of the Union also announce the Electoral College is in session. Or the Oyez dude from the Supreme Court
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Let's talk about this screenshot which Trump claims shows fraud, and explain why it's nonsense. 1/
So, Trump and the Trumpist media points to these screenshots. On the first one, Trump has 2,200,902 votes and Biden has 1,992,356. In the second shot, Biden has shot up to 2,130,695 but Trump and all the other candidates stay the same. Suspicious, no? 2/
Well, no. It's not. First, this is NOT an official map from the State of Michigan's electoral board. It's made by a media outlet, @DecisionDeskHQ. You can see it here: results.decisiondeskhq.com
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The Russia Report is out. On Brexit: MI5 provided just six lines of text about Russia's role in the Brexit referendum, mostly about open source reports. MPs thought it represented deliberate "caution" (evasiveness?)
The Intelligence Community only really 'got' what Russia was doing after the DNC leak. That leak happened on July 22, after the Brexit referendum.
Quietly damning line in the ISC Russia Report: The Government has not "seen or *sought* evidence" of successful Russian interference in UK democracy.
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Black Lives Matter is a principle, not an organisation. Lots of groups have tried to adopt the name to claim they're the 'real' BLM and speak for the campaign as a whole. Who is behind this *verified* twitter account with no named leaders and a million pounds in their GoFundMe?
BLM UK is not a registered charity. There are a few registered companies using the words "Black Lives Matter", several of which were registered in the last couple of weeks, but I don't know if any of them are the same "BLM UK".
BLM UK has a Twitter account, an Instagram and a GoFundMe. No Website of its own, no email address. But their social media accounts are 'verified' by Twitter and IG/Facebook.
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The Tory party is trying to subsume the black British experience into a broader, safer anti-racism that focuses a lot on British Asians. It's the Tory version of Corbynite "oppose antisemitism and all forms of racism".
The horrendous racism Priti Patel has experienced, for example, is not the same as a black Briton, just as she hasn't experienced antisemitism.
In the last few decades, anti-racism work on the UK Left has focused on Asians, especially Muslims, sometimes deliberately collapsing distinctions between black Britons and British Muslims.
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