Showing posts with label Moore v. Harper. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Moore v. Harper. Show all posts
Friday, October 25, 2024
Opinion | Trump’s Election Reversal Dreams Are Dead - The New York Times
"I'm not arguing that we should be complacent. We should expect MAGA lawyers to bombard courts and state legislatures with frivolous arguments to try to reverse the outcome if Trump loses — and we shouldn't be shocked or surprised if MAGA ultimately resorts to violence like it did on Jan. 6 — but I don't think most Americans know how well our election system has been fortified against Trump's legal schemes. He can't run the same playbook he ran in 2020..."
Sunday, December 11, 2022
Supreme Court elections case: Moore v. Harper would give Trump’s Jan. 6 coup a bogus constitutional pass.
That's the argument that the Supreme Court considered, and rejected, in Bush v. Gore. (A young Bush lawyer named Brett Kavanaugh was especially enamored of it.) It's the argument that Trump deployed when he tried to nullify millions of votes in 2020. And it's the argument that Ginni Thomas, wife of Justice Clarence Thomas, relied upon when lobbying state legislators to appoint "alternate electors" who would support Trump. And to be fair, it has some superficial appeal: Its proponents like to say that "legislature means legislature," and that's the end of it.
But it's really not, for at least four reasons. First, when the Constitution was written, in 1787, legislature meant more than the specific body of elected representatives who pass laws. The word encompasses the entire power that makes laws—which is why, for instance, a governor can veto a congressional map...
Saturday, December 10, 2022
Trump Is Ffffffffffbleeped (Opening Arguments podcast OA659)
So many good news episodes lately! The Trump Org found guilty on like a lot of counts, No 11th circuit appeal on the special master bullsh, more classified docs found, Jack Smith issues subpoenas… so much!
in the first segment we talk about the likely disaster that is Moore v. Harper, but Andrew thinks oral arguments suggested a less bad outcome. Get the breakdown!
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