The GOP is staging chaos on the way to a coup

[turbinetree]

wo news stories story that almost speak for themselves without the need for commentary.

First, the 4-3 conservative majority on the Wisconsin Supreme Court has made a bizarre, nonsensical ruling that will throw Wisconsin’s entire election into disarray for no good reason.

Then the Wisconsin Supreme Court stepped in. On Thursday afternoon, by a 4–3 vote divided along partisan lines, the court issued a strange, cryptic order that could throw the election into chaos. The conservative majority directed the Wisconsin Elections Commission to turn over a massive amount of information it did not actually have. These justices then halted the mailing of more absentee ballots while they consider nullifying every ballot that has been printed or mailed and forcing the state to start over. Their stunning eleventh-hour intervention could force election officials into an impossible position: either comply with the court’s order or violate both state and federal law.

Essentially, the Green Party failed to submit proper documents in Wisconsin. They refused to state reasons, or to seek redress in a timely manner. Then they asked the state at the last minute to place the Green Party on the ballot, anyway, despite the fact that hundreds of thousands of ballots had already gone out to voters.

A responsible court would have rejected this challenge for two reasons: Hawkins and Walker waited an unreasonably long time to bring it, and it has no plausible legal basis. But instead of dismissing the case, the infamously irresponsible court ordered the commission to reveal who has requested absentee ballots, who has been mailed a ballot already, and when these ballots were mailed. It also demanded to know who requested the ballots to be printed, implying the existence of some conspiracy to rush them out. In the meantime, the conservative majority effectively shut down the state’s election machinery, suspending the printing of more absentee ballots. Its order suggests that four justices are seriously considering a decision in favor of the Green Party. Such
a ruling would compel the state to throw out every existing ballot and begin the entire, grueling, monthslong process anew.

https://www.alternet.org/2020/09/the-gop-is-staging-chaos-on-the-way-to-a-coup/

[yuiyoshida]

1. All Trump has is riding on this election and so he will try and do his

damn est to Steal this Election..

[UCmeNdc]

2. What is really going on with our election system?

This is just plain stupid. What about an appeal to a higher court?

[JHB]

3. Is there a higher court?

This would be a state matter, and the ruling was by the Wisconsin Supreme Court.

Unclear if the USSC would have jurisdiction here, or that it would take it up even if it does.