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There is no question that since the election Trump has justified almost every accusation of his most severe critics, the one exception being an out and out coup. 


The first wave of lawsuits were welcome and appropriate, since Covid made the election more than a little unusual. But even with these, the factual declarations were astonishingly inadequate. (I took the trouble to read them.) But rather than end there, there have been second and third rounds, the theories getting worse and worse, and the declarations more and more ridiculously inept. The time came to call a halt a week ago.



The latest try, to invalidate retroactively millions of votes cast in good faith and with no showing of fraud, on the grounds that the balloting schemes (entrusted by the Constitution to the various States) iare somehow Constitutionally defective, is both absurd and cynical. If there were a problem with these, you file the suit BEFORE the election, not after. 



 These have zero chance with the Supreme Court - and if cert were granted, I'd move from ultra-conservative on the issue of packing to favoring it. 



But Trump goes on, sowing conspiracy theories for future use. Absolutely disgraceful.

News just flashed that the USSC declined to review the PA case.  I assume they will decline all the other ones.  I agree with your analysis, though I would say that there was a large gap between what was alleged in press conferences and what was alleged under oath in court.  I worry about the reaction when the judiciary doesn't in the end find significant fraud whether that will further erode respect for institutions.  Already the Republican governor of Georgia has been turned on for (correctly) stating that he could not legally overturn the election.  Was the kracken that Jenna Ellis alleged she was unleashing meant to have been the court of public opinion?

BC

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There is no question that since the election Trump has justified almost every accusation of his most severe critics, the one exception being an out and out coup. 


The first wave of lawsuits were welcome and appropriate, since Covid made the election more than a little unusual. But even with these, the factual declarations were astonishingly inadequate. (I took the trouble to read them.) But rather than end there, there have been second and third rounds, the theories getting worse and worse, and the declarations more and more ridiculously inept. The time came to call a halt a week ago.



The latest try, to invalidate retroactively millions of votes cast in good faith and with no showing of fraud, on the grounds that the balloting schemes (entrusted by the Constitution to the various States) iare somehow Constitutionally defective, is both absurd and cynical. If there were a problem with these, you file the suit BEFORE the election, not after. 



 These have zero chance with the Supreme Court - and if cert were granted, I'd move from ultra-conservative on the issue of packing to favoring it. 



But Trump goes on, sowing conspiracy theories for future use. Absolutely disgraceful.

News just flashed that the USSC declined to review the PA case.  I assume they will decline all the other ones.  I agree with your analysis, though I would say that there was a large gap between what was alleged in press conferences and what was alleged under oath in court.  I worry about the reaction when the judiciary doesn't in the end find significant fraud whether that will further erode respect for institutions.  Already the Republican governor of Georgia has been turned on for (correctly) stating that he could not legally overturn the election.  Was the kracken that Jenna Ellis alleged she was unleashing meant to have been the court of public opinion?

BC