President Trump has once again demanded that the Supreme Court invalidate millions of votes in four states, nullifying the election and keeping him in power illegitimately.
Indeed, Trump was unintentionally explicit on this point: He predicted that Joe Biden’s presidency will be corrupt, and commanded the court to overturn the election results on that basis, in the process making this command with no legitimate legal or constitutional basis at all.
As early as Friday, the Supreme Court is expected to weigh in on this demand, which has taken the form of a lawsuit waged by the state of Texas, and backed by Trump and his propagandists, against four swing states that Biden won. The court will likely refuse to hear the case.
All of which is why the scorching reply brief that Pennsylvania has now filed is an extraordinarily important document. It frames the stakes with appropriate urgency, by essentially arguing that the Texas lawsuit and its supporters are, in effect, asking the court to arbitrarily and lawlessly impose the will of Trump supporters on that of the majority that rejected Trump — i.e., tyranny. www.washingtonpost.com/…
Incredibly, even now, some are *still* handwaving away the GOP effort to overturn the election as merely "performative."
Asked about President Trump's claim coronavirus deaths are exaggerated, Dr. Fauci says, "The deaths are real deaths….Go to the hospitals. See what the health care workers are dealing with…That's real. That's not fake." https://t.co/l8wLZq7Xmy
This is of course complete horseshit. Just as with the PPE disaster back in March/April, Trump's federal response has been to let every individual state fend for themselves without funding or guidance.
if ron johnson is an arsonist, @chucktodd is a pyromaniac for repeatedly inviting a serial liar and unserious buffoon to spew his nonsense on-air. https://t.co/bGyjL1e1qs
'Yeltsin sought and won Washington’s support for the final bloody assault, in which tanks set fire to a Parliament filled with civilians. The would-be putschists of 1991 never did that.'https://t.co/KHTHwRBxMl
