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jmg257

(11,996 posts)
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 01:38 PM Nov 2020

Serious Question - supposedly the end-game for Trump team is SCOTUS...

What exactly are/would they be trying to accomplish?

Throwing out entire election?
Throwing out certain states?
Throwing out certain counties?


In PA they were trying to throw out the whole state (6.8 million votes).

Besides the giant squid ink dripping down Rudys face - what is “the Kraken”
????

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Girard442

(6,063 posts)
1. The Kraken is suspending the election processes indefinitely.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 01:43 PM
Nov 2020

There are heavy odds against that happening. We need to make them heavier.

subterranean

(3,427 posts)
4. Throw it to the House of Representatives.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 01:44 PM
Nov 2020

That's my guess. Try to sow enough doubt about the validity of the results that the right-wing justices will have "no choice" but to invalidate the election and let the House of Representatives decide the winner.

No, I don't think it will work.

MineralMan

(146,248 posts)
6. Even Trump's SCOTUS won't do any of those three things.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 01:48 PM
Nov 2020

They all have lifetime appointments. They don't need Donald J. Trump any longer.

Chief Justice Roberts will lead the way in preserving the Constitutional election of a President. Loyalty to Trump ends there, I'm certain. Any case will end up with a 6-3 or 7-2 majority decision to preserve the Constitution and prevent Trump's Travesty.

Watch. In reality, the SCOTUS will probably simply refuse to consider the matter, assuming that any appeals court, en banc, overturns a lower court's decision. Time will run out for Trump, and a new President will be inaugurated.

Once that's clear, Trump will resign to get his pardon from Pence.

 

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)
7. Does Trump have a campaign lawyer admitted to argue cases at the SCOTUS?
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 01:48 PM
Nov 2020

I can't imagine them permitting Giuliani to come before them.

Kaleva

(36,240 posts)
8. They are going about it in a rather stupid way if that's the goal.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 01:52 PM
Nov 2020

You usually want to have top lawyers winning cases at the lower courts and forcing the other side to appeal.

Trump has nit-wits who are losing cases.

 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
9. nothing to be concern about, Supreme Court will not be invovled
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:03 PM
Nov 2020

its all M$M media hype as with all else with viewership and ratings

beastie boy

(9,228 posts)
10. He will take the elections to SCOTUS whether or not he has a snowflake's chance.
Sun Nov 22, 2020, 02:04 PM
Nov 2020

And that's the only thing he is trying to accomplish. He doesn't have specific legal objectives or legal strategies. Whatever sticks to the wall. And he is quickly running out of shit to throw at that wall.

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