We are not really still worrying about this are we? I managed to accept it was over a couple weeks ago. It’s quite freeing.
I don’t hold it against those still fretting but there is no longer any there there.
Ah thanks for explaining that.
Not worried about it. I just want to confirm the legal meaning of having 270 state certified electors after Dec 8th.
https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1335970131168681986?s=21
https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/1335970604785278978?s=21
Personally I’m rooting for a constitutional crisis. But yes it’s been over for weeks.
I mostly brought up the theoretically possible Kemp thing because he did choose not to do it. But I guess there was a lawsuit and agreement preventing him from doing it so he wasn’t choosing, he was bound by law. So Stacey saved GA and maybe the whole election.
Yeah this signature gambit was not developed by trump or his closest confidants.
The GOP feed Trump this strategy. It’s just typical Republican disenfranchisement that was easily spoon fed to Trump.
Everything is personal with narcissists. Once he’s locked on to the idea that Kemp isn’t a loyal soldier he won’t let it go. He CAN’T let it go.
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Kind of amazed Kemp and SoS agreed to that consent decree or w/e with Stacey. Anyone know why? Seems like that hurts republicans bigly.
Had to be terrified about what would come out in discovery right?
Excellently played by Stacey. Sure what came out probably would have been super embarrassing to Kemp but the supreme court would have eventually tossed her lawsuit out and GA would have gone to Trump.
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Some of it but for example the Open Sky treaty Trump abandoned is much harder to roll back because he also dismantled the planes used for surveillance.
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I think I’m going to need a citation on this, because I feel pretty sure that I remember Trump repealing Obama EOs with his own EOs, no Senate action needed.
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This agreement was made pre-COVID when mail-in voting wasn’t a big deal. Also the agreement was done in part to drop a pending Federal lawsuit.
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Dems would likely sue if they tried to throw out lots of ballots via random sampling. They should have sued over the ones in Wisconsin. SCOTUS may not want to set a precedent given that Dems would like to use sampling for the Census.
Then again, SCOTUS could just say lol fuck you sampling to throw out ballots is science, sampling for the Census is fraud.
Yup, it’s almost like Dems don’t want to put the conservative justices in a pickle with Census sampling. Almost like they want their own supporters to be systemically disenfranchised. Almost…
No just kidding it’s totally that way.
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So sounds like the president can redo the EO or revoke it totally, but its not super easy. It’s gotta go through the agencies then the courts. Like when the court blocked Trump attempt to change DACA.
So we will be super fucked with a lot of these in the supreme court.
I don’t know if thats the case with the senate though.
The risk that SCOTUS decides to be arbitrary and capricious by ruling everything arbitrary and capricious is real, but it’s not that hard to come up with reasonable legal arguments for implementing repeals of Trump’s EOs. If that is an objective standard that will be judged in good faith, it’s a very low hurdle.
Theres your problem. Obviously they won’t hold off even the majority of them, but the most important ones that they support? Absolutely.
I had a dream last night where I received a company email that referred to a group of corporate attorneys as “The Lawbros”. As in “The Lawbros inform us that we should be able to…”
LOL me.
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