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The most likely result is that fraud will be strongly indicated but not legally provable.
On the other hand, in the unlikely result that we can be reasonably sure fraud was not a factor, we can argue that the behavior of Twitter, Facebook, Google, and the news media made it impossible for the American people to make an informed choice. So Biden-Harris would be illegitimate for another reason.
Except that this whole election year has itself been an anomaly.
When the Republicans took back the Senate, do you believe they should have brought back the filibuster for judicial nominations? Oh boy, that would have made the Democrats very, very happy. Just think of those hundreds of conservative judges they could have blocked!
Classic example: Hitler didn’t use poison gas on the battlefield in World War II because he knew that the Allies would respond in kind. If he could have been sure high-minded ethical scruples would not permit that, he would have used poison gas with abandon.
Similarly, what restraints some Democrats from court packing is that they fear Republicans would do the same in their turn. If they could be sure Republicans would not do it, then there would be no downside to court packing.
The rest of the year was all of 34 days. Election Day was on 11/8/2000, the Supreme Court handed down its decision on 12/12/2000, the day after oral arguments were presented to the court.
I am surprised to read that the Republican Party should be taking its cues on how to behave after an election from Hillary Clinton. When they go low, we go lower? OK…
I disagree. Hillary was so toxic that even Trump could beat her. I also believe that a not Trump candidate would have beaten Biden. Trump was a huge mistake.
I agree that the media is garbage. But it doesn’t seem kosher to cancel an election because we have a garbage media. I do hope Trump in any capacity continues his full bore attack on the media.
I’m not sure what you mean by “cancel an election”.
Rather, the Republicans need to keep election irregularities alive in the public mind so that Biden and Harris cannot effectively claim any kind of mandate.
If possible, prove that they were actually repudiated by the American people; or, failing that, that they would have been repudiated, had not the media put a heavy thumb (and hand and arm and buttock) on the scales.
Unless the Trump legal team has a mountain of evidence that they haven’t presented yet, Biden will have been elected by the electoral college. That is a mandate of sorts.
Of course the rights should mention that the media are corrupt democratic hacks and that election irregularities always go for one side. I’m fine with fighting tooth and nail but that doesn’t change the mandate of winning an election.
Hey here’s a radical thought: how about the people making claims about irregularities prove them first? Because so far, they have not done that. Making claims without proof is just a fancy way of lying.
This is a kind of poetical substitute for reasoning, like shutting down U.S. code breakers, saying “Gentlemen don’t read each other’s mail.”
I believe the only way to stop bad behavior by the Democrats is to make it cost them. You prefer moral suasion, God help us all.
Remember, Hillary‘s behavior has been greeted with acclaim, not obloquy, in nearly all quarters of the media. The Republicans can either accept being treated as second-class citizens, or demand equal treatment.
On the other subject: You can’t give credit to Al Gore for a decision which he and all his legal phalanxes vociferously opposed.
How long he would have continued challenging the election results we cannot know.
Perhaps until Florida Democrats found a cache of ballots in a landfill or a hollow tree and the Florida Supreme Court declared that “all ballots must be counted”!
What Trump *should* be doing right now is barnstorming the country holding rallies where he talks about how well he’s set things up for the incoming Biden Administration – Vaccine online to be distributed before the inauguration, peace treaties in the Middle East, cheap gasoline and natural gas, an economy that’s primed to take off once the lockdown ends, etc, etc, etc.
Go out a winner, not a whiny loser.
Like what they’ve been doing for four years, while your faction said NOTHING.
There is a non-zero chance (I’d actually put it above 50% myself) that Cruz would have lost to Hillary. He wasn’t then able to mobilize much enthusiasm, although he could probably do a better job of it now.
Would you be willing to rule in a way that might very well have BLM/Antifa coming to your home with torches?
Sure. I thought we wanted to confirm Constitutionalist judges for a reason. Are you saying that it doesn’t matter whether we nominate a Clarence Thomas or a Elena Kagan?
And then when the good things don’t happen, ask why!
Would you be willing to give us proof that any judges ruled against Trump’s legal team because they were afraid of this? Or are you just making stuff up again to support your increasingly silly narrative?
Yup. Take credit for the good stuff, Dems get blamed for the bad stuff.
Instead, Dems will be able to blame all the bad stuff for the next year on Trump not cooperating. with the transition.
I like that Trump fights. I wish he’d won. But sometimes you have to make the best of a bad situation.
Wait, I have a faction? Cool!
But are you actually suggesting that no one pushed back on the Russia investigation or repeatedly criticized Hillary Clinton for her delusional statements about the election being stolen? Because that is a ridiculous assertion and easy to refute. But first you have to tell me who’s in “my faction.”
“I’ll take things that did not happen for $500, Alex.” (RIP to Alex Trebek, by the way).
I miss Mark Steyn.
https://www.steynonline.com/10781/express-checkout
You seem to believe that the way to stop Democrats is to create bigger lies than they do and hope you can make it stick. I prefer just living in reality and dealing with it. You know, like an adult.
“Fighting” the results of a free and fair election (and yes, that’s what it was) is driving 80mph down the road to anarchy. You can let me out of that car right now.
I would hope they would slow the car down first.
He’ll be fine ….speed up a bit.
We’ve already seen lawyers and law firms dropping out because of doxxing and threats. Are you claiming that no judge could ever be similarly doxxed/threatened? And even if it may not have actually happened yet, TO JUDGES, doesn’t mean that someone wouldn’t be aware of the possibility. Considering what we’ve seen happen to lawyers and law firms, and mayors, etc.
The problem is more that these people get away with it, without consequence. Largely because Democrat mayors and DAs etc don’t discourage it and may even ENcourage it.
You should have gotten out four years ago.
Give me a call when you’ve got something more than “this happened, therefor that must have happened and now my theory is confirmed.” Yikes.
It’s too bad The X-Files is no longer in production. You guys would be excellent sources of material for the writers.
Well, let’s see. We know that people have been attacked and sometimes killed, after saying “All lives matter.”
But, if nobody you know personally has been attacked or killed by BLM, you think it’s okay to go into a BLM riot and start yelling “All lives matter?”
Good luck with that.
Ah, so we went from “judges” to “people” and from election fraud to some other example that has nothing to do with what we’re discussing. Your arguments fall apart with the pushback of a feather. Getting bored with this, but OK:
The truth is, you don’t know the reason those lawyers and law firms dropped out. Might be doxxing, although you’d think that if the future of fair and free elections were actually at stake here, they might have toughed it out a bit. Leads me to think that maybe it wasn’t doxxing. Maybe they looked at the evidence and said, “nope, not gonna be a part of this.”
They also could have reported it to the FBI as doxxing is a Fed– HEY, where IS the FBI in all of this? Tampering with ballots is also a Federal offense. Why haven’t we heard a peep from them? Oh noes! ARE THEY IN ON THIS TOO?