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captainmorgan

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hanimmal

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https://apnews.com/article/election-2020-joe-biden-donald-trump-lawsuits-elections-fe784086a81497dcfe38f0eb5bffd36d
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HOUSTON (AP) — The Supreme Court on Friday rejected a lawsuit backed by President Donald Trump to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, ending a desperate attempt to get legal issues rejected by state and federal judges before the nation’s highest court.

The court’s order was its second this week rebuffing Republican requests that it get involved in the 2020 election outcome. The justices turned away an appeal from Pennsylvania Republicans on Tuesday.

The Electoral College meets Monday to formally elect Biden as the next president.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

HOUSTON (AP) — More than half of House Republicans, including their top two leaders, are backing a Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in an extraordinary display of the party’s willingness to subvert the will of voters.

Seventeen Republican attorneys general and 126 members of Congress have joined Texas and President Donald Trump in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out millions of votes in four battleground states based on baseless claims of fraud. On Friday, House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy of California and Minority Whip Steve Scalise of Louisiana signed onto a brief backing the longshot bid, demonstrating Trump’s remarkable political power even even as he spreads false claims that many Democrats and others fear risk deeply damaging democracy.

“This lawsuit is an act of flailing GOP desperation, which violates the principles enshrined in our American Democracy,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi wrote in a message to Democrats on Friday.

A few Republicans have expressed concerns about the case. Many others have remained silent.

“Texas is a big state, but I don’t know exactly why it has a right to tell four other states how to run their elections. So I’m having a hard time figuring out the basis for that lawsuit,” Republican Sen. Lamar Alexander told NBC’s Chuck Todd in an interview for “Meet The Press” that will air Sunday.

To be clear, there has been no evidence of widespread fraud. Election law experts think the lawsuit will never last.

“The Supreme Court is not going to overturn the election in the Texas case, as the President has told them to do,” tweeted Rick Hasen, a law professor at the University of California, Irvine. “But we are in bad shape as a country that 17 states could support this shameful, anti-American filing” by Texas and its attorney general, Ken Paxton, he said.

The lawsuit filed against Michigan, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin repeats false, disproven, and unsubstantiated accusations about the voting in four states that went for Trump’s Democratic challenger. The case demands that the high court invalidate the states’ 62 total Electoral College votes. That’s an unprecedented remedy in American history: setting aside the votes of tens of millions of people, under the baseless claim the Republican incumbent lost a chance at a second term due to widespread fraud.

Two days after Paxton sued, 17 states filed a motion supporting the lawsuit, and on Thursday six of those states asked to join the case themselves. Trump has acted to join the case, tweeting Thursday that “the Supreme Court has a chance to save our Country from the greatest Election abuse in the history of the United States.” Hours later, Trump held a meeting at the White House, scheduled before the suit was filed, with a dozen Republican attorneys general, including Paxton and several others who are backing the effort.

Still, some of the top state Republican prosecutors urging the Supreme Court to hear the case have acknowledged that the effort is a long shot and are seeking to distance themselves from Trump’s baseless allegations of fraud. North Dakota’s Wayne Stenehjem, among the 17 attorneys general supporting the case, said North Dakota is not alleging voter fraud in the four states at issue.

“We’re careful on that,” said Stenehjem, who noted that his office has received thousands of calls and emails from constituents asking the state to support the suit. “But it’s worth it for the Supreme Court to weigh in and settle it once and for all,” he said.

The case has inflamed already high tensions over the election. West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey said his office staff received two death threats Thursday after he signed onto the brief supporting the case.

The lawsuit has also divided officials in some states.

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox is supporting Texas’ case, even though he said the suit was “belated” and its chances “are slim at best.” Fox said the case raised “important constitutional questions about the separation of powers and the integrity of mail-in ballots in those defendant states.”

But Gov. Steve Bullock, D-Mont., urged the court to reject the case. He said the fact that Texas is not suing Montana, which Trump won, even though the state similarly used mail-in ballots underscores that “this action is less about election integrity than it is about attempting to overturn the will of the electorate.”

The litigation rankled Democratic attorneys general. Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, co-chair of the Democratic Attorneys General Association, called the attempt to overturn votes “unconscionable.” Support among other leading lawyers was disturbing, Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford, who’s also co-chair of the Democratic attorneys general group, told The Associated Press.

“I do think that these individuals are kowtowing to a president who has implemented some level of control and authority over the duly elected attorneys general in their states in a way that is unfortunate,” he said.

“I do think that this is a dangerous precedent to initiate.”

Suits brought by Trump and his allies have failed repeatedly across the country, and the Supreme Court this week rejected a Republican bid to reverse Pennsylvania’s certification of Biden’s victory.

Trump has spent the week relentlessly tweeting about the Texas case with the hashtag “overturn” and claiming, falsely, that he had won the election but was robbed.

Many of the attorneys general supporting the case have shown greater political ambitions.

In Kansas, Republican Attorney General Derek Schmidt, who is considering a bid for governor in 2022, announced that he would back the effort only hours after former Republican Gov. Jeff Colyer — another potential candidate for governor — tweeted that Schmidt’s office should.

Officials in Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin say the suit is a publicity stunt. More than 20 other attorneys general from states including California and Virginia also filed a brief Thursday urging the court to reject the case.

Despite the political pressure, Idaho’s Republican attorney general chose not to join Texas.

“As is sometimes the case, the legally correct decision may not be the politically convenient decision,” Lawrence Wasden said in a statement. “But my responsibility is to the state of Idaho and the rule of law.”
 

OldMedUser

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How the fuck does Trump get away with all this court BS and the blatant lies that are downright seditious if not treasonous?

Is there not some point where he can be forcibly removed from office and public view? These ReTrumplicans, (What Cuomo is calling them now on his show), need to collectively grow a pair and denounce him or go down in history as traitors to the democratic way.

The worst of them claim to be the most patriotic but supporting Trump is anything but that. Is this Bizarro world now? It's bizarre at the very least and is destroying any credulity left about the American way to the rest of the world.

He's a mad dog and we all know how that story ends.

Good luck to my American friends! This next few weeks are gonna be full of drama.

:peace:
 

Budley Doright

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Hopefully these court challenges and losses lead some to do a little critical thinking and maybe, just maybe the morons will start to realize they may be wrong and there was nothing nefarious about the voting ......... ya maybe :(. Wear a mask and be safe!!!
 

printer

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I have used a kinder term for them, Trumpkins, actually a little more condescending as it invokes the vision of little children. The common word on the street is that this does not prove no cheating but that even the SC is full of Rino's, the justices were threatened with violence, the whole justice system is crooked. The initial shock has worn off.

Pro-Trump Groups to March and Pray to Protest Election

Conservative groups plan protests against the presidential election results nationwide on Saturday, including a Washington rally headlined by President Donald Trump's recently pardoned former national security adviser.

Organizers Stop The Steal, which is linked to pro-Trump operative Roger Stone, and church groups urged supporters to turn out to "Jericho Marches" and prayer rallies. These are planned at Washington's National Mall and in the capitals of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona, where Trump's campaign has questioned vote counts.

The Washington rally will begin with marches around the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. Supreme Court and Justice Department "with prayers for the walls of corruption and election fraud to fall down," according to StopTheSteal.com. The plans reference the biblical miracle of the battle of Jericho, in which the walls of the city crumbled after priests and soldiers marched around it. Trump planned to leave the White House around midday to attend the Army-Navy football game in West Point, New York."

So you can expect grown women to weep when they see his car drive by and the girls swoon.


Comments.
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We must get prepared for this Marxists takeover of America.
Get in physical and mental shape, that is the one thing we do have control over.
Learn or sharpen your Rittenhouse skills.
All family members included. Children, women and the elderly.

Take it from a survivor of a house invasion. You just think you are prepared because you have guns, but are your kids and other members ready?
Have a solid plan and practice it.
You'll thank me later.
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America is at a turning point, the choice is before us, freedom or slavery. The former democrat party takes away freedom and replaces it with slavery, yet millions of voters follow the likes of Antifa and BLM (both Pro-Fascist groups) agreeing to put chains on themselves. and forcing chains on the rest of us. Time is running out to save America's life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The SCOTUS let the American people down, allowing the Democrats to obviously steal the election. The SCOTUS are avoiding confrontation and the Constitution. It is a shame it has come to this, but 70 million Patriots will not let this slide. You cannot look away on this as this will be a perpetual play of the Democrats to win every four years. Did my vote ever count? I do not know. How about you? It is your given right as a legal USA citizen to have your voice heard and not ignored. At this point, it will always be us against them. What a shame it has come to this.
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But otherwise they are rather subdued. Why get up this morning, what is there to look forward to?
 

printer

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Lara Trump to Newsmax TV: President Is 'Made for This Time'

"He was made for this time right now in American history," Lara Trump, the wife of President Trump's middle son Eric, told "Saturday Report." "Because any other person would have laid down, would have conceded, would have given up, and said, 'Ah, it's not worth the fight; I'm not even going to bother with this.'

"Not President Donald Trump. He fights to the very end and he is the person we need for this time in American history." "I am proud of him," Lara Trump told host Carl Higbie. "Any other person would have given up a long time ago, but he knows we have to get this one right and it's too important to the future of America."

"This is their strategy, and it's always been their strategy: It's to trying and project what the Democrats actually do onto the president and onto conservatives," she said. "So, you want to talk about a coup, what about the nonsensical issue with trying to impeach the president over a perfectly acceptable phone call with the president of Ukraine? What about the Russia collusion hoax?

"It's why Newsmax has such great ratings right now," she concluded. "People want to turn to hear the truth, and you guys are doing that."


Kind of funny the only one of the Trumps that may actually get the political nod is not Trump blood but married in. In case you don't know there is talk about her running for a Senate. seat in two years.
 

CunningCanuk

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I have used a kinder term for them, Trumpkins, actually a little more condescending as it invokes the vision of little children. The common word on the street is that this does not prove no cheating but that even the SC is full of Rino's, the justices were threatened with violence, the whole justice system is crooked. The initial shock has worn off.

Pro-Trump Groups to March and Pray to Protest Election

Conservative groups plan protests against the presidential election results nationwide on Saturday, including a Washington rally headlined by President Donald Trump's recently pardoned former national security adviser.

Organizers Stop The Steal, which is linked to pro-Trump operative Roger Stone, and church groups urged supporters to turn out to "Jericho Marches" and prayer rallies. These are planned at Washington's National Mall and in the capitals of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona, where Trump's campaign has questioned vote counts.

The Washington rally will begin with marches around the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. Supreme Court and Justice Department "with prayers for the walls of corruption and election fraud to fall down," according to StopTheSteal.com. The plans reference the biblical miracle of the battle of Jericho, in which the walls of the city crumbled after priests and soldiers marched around it. Trump planned to leave the White House around midday to attend the Army-Navy football game in West Point, New York."

So you can expect grown women to weep when they see his car drive by and the girls swoon.


Comments.
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We must get prepared for this Marxists takeover of America.
Get in physical and mental shape, that is the one thing we do have control over.
Learn or sharpen your Rittenhouse skills.
All family members included. Children, women and the elderly.

Take it from a survivor of a house invasion. You just think you are prepared because you have guns, but are your kids and other members ready?
Have a solid plan and practice it.
You'll thank me later.
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America is at a turning point, the choice is before us, freedom or slavery. The former democrat party takes away freedom and replaces it with slavery, yet millions of voters follow the likes of Antifa and BLM (both Pro-Fascist groups) agreeing to put chains on themselves. and forcing chains on the rest of us. Time is running out to save America's life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The SCOTUS let the American people down, allowing the Democrats to obviously steal the election. The SCOTUS are avoiding confrontation and the Constitution. It is a shame it has come to this, but 70 million Patriots will not let this slide. You cannot look away on this as this will be a perpetual play of the Democrats to win every four years. Did my vote ever count? I do not know. How about you? It is your given right as a legal USA citizen to have your voice heard and not ignored. At this point, it will always be us against them. What a shame it has come to this.
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But otherwise they are rather subdued. Why get up this morning, what is there to look forward to?
What’s Christmas without snowflakes?
 

OldMedUser

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I have used a kinder term for them, Trumpkins, actually a little more condescending as it invokes the vision of little children. The common word on the street is that this does not prove no cheating but that even the SC is full of Rino's, the justices were threatened with violence, the whole justice system is crooked. The initial shock has worn off.

Pro-Trump Groups to March and Pray to Protest Election

Conservative groups plan protests against the presidential election results nationwide on Saturday, including a Washington rally headlined by President Donald Trump's recently pardoned former national security adviser.

Organizers Stop The Steal, which is linked to pro-Trump operative Roger Stone, and church groups urged supporters to turn out to "Jericho Marches" and prayer rallies. These are planned at Washington's National Mall and in the capitals of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada and Arizona, where Trump's campaign has questioned vote counts.

The Washington rally will begin with marches around the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. Supreme Court and Justice Department "with prayers for the walls of corruption and election fraud to fall down," according to StopTheSteal.com. The plans reference the biblical miracle of the battle of Jericho, in which the walls of the city crumbled after priests and soldiers marched around it. Trump planned to leave the White House around midday to attend the Army-Navy football game in West Point, New York."

So you can expect grown women to weep when they see his car drive by and the girls swoon.


Comments.
---------------------
We must get prepared for this Marxists takeover of America.
Get in physical and mental shape, that is the one thing we do have control over.
Learn or sharpen your Rittenhouse skills.
All family members included. Children, women and the elderly.

Take it from a survivor of a house invasion. You just think you are prepared because you have guns, but are your kids and other members ready?
Have a solid plan and practice it.
You'll thank me later.
------------------
America is at a turning point, the choice is before us, freedom or slavery. The former democrat party takes away freedom and replaces it with slavery, yet millions of voters follow the likes of Antifa and BLM (both Pro-Fascist groups) agreeing to put chains on themselves. and forcing chains on the rest of us. Time is running out to save America's life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
-------------------
The SCOTUS let the American people down, allowing the Democrats to obviously steal the election. The SCOTUS are avoiding confrontation and the Constitution. It is a shame it has come to this, but 70 million Patriots will not let this slide. You cannot look away on this as this will be a perpetual play of the Democrats to win every four years. Did my vote ever count? I do not know. How about you? It is your given right as a legal USA citizen to have your voice heard and not ignored. At this point, it will always be us against them. What a shame it has come to this.
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But otherwise they are rather subdued. Why get up this morning, what is there to look forward to?
I like what Cuomo is calling them on his CNN show. ReTrumplicans. The party of losers!

:peace:
 

DIY-HP-LED

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Beau is chipping away at the Trumpers, he sounds like them and looks like them. Email the video to a Trumper you know, make them think, or at least sow doubt.
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Let's talk about Trump, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution....
 

printer

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They would have turned him off after 2 minutes. He is making sense. To the end he is saying people do not want to be wrong, they have too much invested in Trump. There is no going b
Beau is chipping away at the Trumpers, he sounds like them and looks like them. Email the video to a Trumper you know, make them think, or at least sow doubt.
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Let's talk about Trump, the Supreme Court, and the Constitution....
They would have turned him off after 2 minutes. He is making sense. To the end he is saying people do not want to be wrong, they have too much invested in Trump. There is no going back.
 

DIY-HP-LED

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They would have turned him off after 2 minutes. He is making sense. To the end he is saying people do not want to be wrong, they have too much invested in Trump. There is no going b


They would have turned him off after 2 minutes. He is making sense. To the end he is saying people do not want to be wrong, they have too much invested in Trump. There is no going back.
Most would, but he looks and sounds like them and his opening was skillful enough to get a hearing from some. You don't need all of them, just whittle off 10% or even 20% of the soft targets among them. Many voted but remained silent and thus have less of their egos on the line, they wanted to keep their options open and those are most likely to evolve. None who traveled to Washington today are among them as are about 80% of those who voted for Trump. They are also shrinking over time as old voters die and a new generation takes their place with lower percentages of conditioned racists because of modern media and the reduced influence of parents and local communities on their values.

The core of their discontent is wealth inequality in America and it affects rural populations acutely and causes personal and social stress. Everybody becomes an asshole on many levels when they are under stress and perceived threat. They see happy brown people in commercials on TV living the good life in cities and they look at their own lives and figure they are getting screwed. Most if not all these people are racists and bigots at some level, from those who carry out acts of hate, to those who just tolerate it or automatically filter it out.

The republicans have figured out how to harness racism under the guise of "culture wars" that are a proxy for racism and a source of unity for them. Guns for them are a symbol of power, they own the country, not the "others", it's why every time a cop sees a black person with a gun in the truck of his car, it usual ends in his death. No NRA crying about his rights as a gun owner, no support from these supposed 2nd amendment fanatics, the second only applies if you are white.
 

printer

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Oh, this is better than the movies.

Lin Wood to Newsmax TV: Trump Should Declare Martial Law

"While the Supreme Court has rejected taking up Texas v. Pennsylvania, attorney Lin Wood on Newsmax TV said he is hopeful his case will be heard on merit and standing; otherwise, President Donald Trump and Martial law might be in order.

"The premise of my case is simple: I take the position the Nov. 3 election was unlawful and unconstitutional, because the election was held using procedures for mail absentee ballots that were developed by the secretary of state in a backroom deal over the Democratic Party of March of 2020," Wood told Saturday's "The Count" with co-hosts Tom Basile and Heather Childers.

"They changed the procedures and you cannot change the procedures in a federal election unless it is done by the state legislature. So, for that reason, the election is unlawful, the recount that followed was unlawful, and the Jan. 5 runoff is unlawful."

Wood's case is filed with the Supreme Court against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger.
"I believe my case has merit," Wood told Basile. "I hope the Supreme Court will agree to hear it."
On standing, Wood said he is filing his lawsuit as a voter in Georgia, which makes him the "property party to file the lawsuit."

Wood noted Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's Texas v. Pennsylvania case was rejected Friday night not on merit, but standing. He added his calls for a special Georgia legislative session has been ignored by GOP Gov. Brian Kemp, GOP Lt. Gov. Geoff Duncan, GOP Secretary of State Raffensperger, and GOP Attorney General Chris Carr.

"They're not very responsive," Wood lamented. "I think that's because they've been corrupted by Chinese money, and they've got something to hide."
If the U.S. Supreme Court continues to deny to hear election lawsuits, Wood suggested, Trump should declare "some extent of Martial law."

"If the Supreme Court does not act, someone who cares about the rule of law in this country has to act: That would be President Donald Trump," Wood concluded. "If the Supreme Court does not act, I think the president should declare some extent of Martial law, and he should hold off an stay the electoral college.

"Because we cannot have in this country, an election of our leader, where you have massive evidence of fraud and illegality. This country has to have a vote that has integrity. And the electoral college does not need to meet and vote until we have resolved these issues."


This really riled up the loonies there.
 
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Fogdog

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bump

Purple Tears Cocktail
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So, yeah, we have much to celebrate.

December 14, the day when the EC vote is recorded and the election results are made final: I'm going to get a bit woozy. How about serving this:


Purple Tears Cocktail

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Is there an appropriately named strain of cannabis that anybody will recommend?

We have other dates:

  • December 23, 2020: Deadline for receipt of election results
  • January 6, 2021: Congress counts electoral votes

And of course the inauguration.
 
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