The GOP's problem now is that their base will never accept any of them recognising Biden as President. Not on December 14, not on Jan 6, not on Inauguration Day.
GOP Senators and Congress members have missed the chance to jump of the crazy train. The longer they deny Biden's win, the more unacceptable they make it to ever acknowledge him.
A proportion of the elected GOP will outright claim that Biden isn't President, even after Jan 21. That's going to have consequences.
Biden, and many of his voters, want a return to pre-Trump politics. But US politics can't function if one party, or a big chunk of it, doesn't accept the legal authority of the President.
McConnell won't be able to do deals with Biden if his caucus is too afraid of Trumpist primary challenges. Confirming executive nominees is "admitting Biden won", too.
These GOP electeds who said they were just humouring Trump a month ago — do any of them have an exit strategy?
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Trumpworld is excited: Breitbart is reporting that the State of Texas has filed suit against MI, PA, WI and GA in the Supreme Court in an attempt to get the election results tossed out in those states.
This lawsuit ticks a lot of Trump boxes:
🟣As a dispute between states, it starts out in SCOTUS
🟣It seeks to put enough EVs in play to swing the whole election result
🟣It's the 'big beautiful lawsuit' Trump has wanted all along
Breitbart hasn't published the actual complaint, and it doesn't appear to be anywhere else yet, but we can say some things about it from their reporting:
Four days after @JennaEllisEsq announced "On to SCOTUS!", the Trump Campaign has not yet petitioned the Supreme Court to hear the appeal to the 3rd Circuit's denial. The Safe Harbour deadline is in just 7 days.
@JennaEllisEsq In those 7 days, the Trump Campaign has to:
1. Get SCOTUS to grant cert 2. Argue to SCOTUS that the 3rd Circuit's denial of their motion to amend should be overturned.
3. Argue their amended motion at MDPA before Brann, who's already made it clear he will toss the case for moot/standing/badness
3 weeks ago, the idea of calling for state legislatures to ignore the election results was fringe nuttiness. Today, Trump and his lawyers are loudly demanding it.
Online Pro-Trump spaces were happy to wait for SCOTUS to "overturn" the result. As they begin to understand that won't happen, more of them are calling for a coup too.
Hey @marceelias, I think I've found a minor error in your Answer in Pearson v Kemp, because your team assumed Powell and Wood accurately represented the content of their exhibits. They didn't.
In para 13, you accept that the Complaint accurately quotes from Plaintiff's exhibit 7 when it cites Dr. Andrew Appel saying he can hack a voting machine with a screwdriver in 7 minutes. But Exhibit 7 does NOT contain this quote: