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The New Republic - (archived: https://archive.ph/XN4o6 ) I Dont Trust the Supreme Court With the 2024 Election
During his presidency, the high courts conservatives proved to be resistant to the idea that
Donald Trump was their legal client. This year, that all changed.
Matt Ford
October 23, 2024
Its impossible to say whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will win the presidential election next month. Far more easy to predict is that there will be litigation after Election Day over the results. By one count, there have already been more than 130 legal challenges to election laws across two-thirds of the states. Trump and his allies are aggressively sowing doubt about the election results so that they can create fraudulent slates of electors to deadlock the Electoral College if he loses.
In some ways, the American electoral system is more resilient now to Trumps malfeasance than it was four years ago. Democrats hold key gubernatorial and election offices in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, providing a backstop against GOP skullduggery. Congress passed a law after the chaos of the 2020 election to clarify the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Storming the Capitol to stop the count on January 6, 2025, will also be far more difficult with a Democratic president in the White House.
But there is one powerful actor in the presidential election that still keeps me up at night: the Supreme Court. I was fairly confident ahead of the 2020 election that the justices would not grossly intervene for Trumps benefit. Indeed, they ultimately rejected MAGA litigation intended to throw out the results, wholesale. But the courts rulings in Trumps favor last termfirst on disqualification under the Fourteenth Amendment and then on presidential immunitymean I cant make the same assumption this time.
For most of the Trump years, the Supreme Court did not show the former president any clear favoritismby which I mean that its members did not rule in his favor in ways that did not reflect their general approach to the law. When the justices tossed a series of congressional subpoenas for Trumps financial records in 2020, for example, it fit within the courts general trend of insulating the executive branch from congressional scrutiny. That same day, they also allowed New York prosecutors to obtain those records with a grand jury subpoena, rejecting his sweeping arguments for immunity.
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During his presidency, the high courts conservatives proved to be resistant to the idea that
Donald Trump was their legal client. This year, that all changed.
Matt Ford
October 23, 2024
Its impossible to say whether Donald Trump or Kamala Harris will win the presidential election next month. Far more easy to predict is that there will be litigation after Election Day over the results. By one count, there have already been more than 130 legal challenges to election laws across two-thirds of the states. Trump and his allies are aggressively sowing doubt about the election results so that they can create fraudulent slates of electors to deadlock the Electoral College if he loses.
In some ways, the American electoral system is more resilient now to Trumps malfeasance than it was four years ago. Democrats hold key gubernatorial and election offices in Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, providing a backstop against GOP skullduggery. Congress passed a law after the chaos of the 2020 election to clarify the Electoral Count Act of 1887. Storming the Capitol to stop the count on January 6, 2025, will also be far more difficult with a Democratic president in the White House.
But there is one powerful actor in the presidential election that still keeps me up at night: the Supreme Court. I was fairly confident ahead of the 2020 election that the justices would not grossly intervene for Trumps benefit. Indeed, they ultimately rejected MAGA litigation intended to throw out the results, wholesale. But the courts rulings in Trumps favor last termfirst on disqualification under the Fourteenth Amendment and then on presidential immunitymean I cant make the same assumption this time.
For most of the Trump years, the Supreme Court did not show the former president any clear favoritismby which I mean that its members did not rule in his favor in ways that did not reflect their general approach to the law. When the justices tossed a series of congressional subpoenas for Trumps financial records in 2020, for example, it fit within the courts general trend of insulating the executive branch from congressional scrutiny. That same day, they also allowed New York prosecutors to obtain those records with a grand jury subpoena, rejecting his sweeping arguments for immunity.
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The New Republic - I Don't Trust the Supreme Court With the 2024 Election (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
22 hrs ago
OP
I wouldn't trust that sorry lot of traitors to pick up dog shit in a public park.
SheltieLover
22 hrs ago
#3
JohnSJ
(95,609 posts)1. Nor should they, or anybody for that matter.
superpatriotman
(6,499 posts)2. Unless it is a landslide
The election will end up in the Beef Supreme Court
SheltieLover
(59,129 posts)3. I wouldn't trust that sorry lot of traitors to pick up dog shit in a public park.