True, but he could only cast a tie breaking vote and it wouldn’t have been a tie at 50-48.
You only need a majority of senators present, not a majority of 100.
post jan 6 they couldn’t
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The symmetry between Ginni and Clarence Thomas’ work has never been more obvious. While Clarence fought to give state legislatures the constitutional authority to reject election results, Ginni lobbied state legislators to do exactly that. A casual observer might assume they were working in tandem, with Clarence handling the law and Ginni working on the political side. They aren’t particularly subtle about it. You need only read Ginni’s emails and Clarence’s opinions to see exactly how the 2024 coup attempt will go down because it’s identical to the 2020 coup attempt: If a Democrat prevails, red state officials will question the legitimacy of the results, giving state legislatures an opportunity to throw them out and declare the Republican to be the real winner. This has nothing to do with liberals squelching Ginni Thomas’ feminist drive to have a separate and distinct political life apart from that of her spouse. More power to her. This has everything to do with two public actors working together to ensure that red state legislatures decide future elections in lieu of the voters.
The question remaining isn’t whether it’ll happen; the question is whether it’ll succeed. The Thomases tried this approach in 2020, but like Trump’s other allies, they developed their strategy a bit too late and didn’t buff out the crackpot edges until recently. But this time they’re putting in the work with plenty of time to spare. If Republicans succeed in pulling off a much more respectable coup in 2024, Americans will have every right to be furious and appalled. But no one will have any excuse to be surprised, because Clarence, Ginni, Eastman, Clark, and their many powerful friends are currently laying out the game plan right before our eyes.
Anyone? Try everyone. Even you know exactly what would have happened.
Well I was looking for any kind of hard stop, like the new Senate being sworn in on Jan. 5th (which I wasn’t thinking about) or other lawbro reason why they couldn’t after a certain point.
do you mean politically or legally?
politically they lost like 20 senators for a few weeks
they would have voted for a scoutus vacancy though
i don’t think so. it only takes one or two weak hearted senators to go to cancun for the weekend, and proceedings can be ground to a halt. i don’t know if minority had a chance to filibuster for a couple of days. i’m saying for a brief moment there were republicans thinking they’d have to defect. before they saw that they could have gotten away with it.
That would be such an elite troll for a panhandler to do outside of an abortion clinic that has regular anti-choice protestors.
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I’m guessing we’re never going to find out who leaked the opinion?
Not unless Gini confesses.
maybe im tinfoiling, but the longer we hear nothing the closer to 100% it gets that it was a conservative justice/clerk… the right would never ignore this major opportunity to smear the left. and as the other poster said, Ginni would know first and be on the phone immediately to any and every body that would listen…
https://twitter.com/lindyli/status/1509748539731193867
https://twitter.com/ifindkarma/status/1509956614836547587
Well that explains a lot. She finally found a cult big enough that she can pretend it’s not a cult.
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Who cares?
And actually there are rules for war, hence the term “war crimes”.
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