Talking to my lawyer friends, they say the timing is the big problem. In a case where there is reason to doubt the integrity, be it fraud, system errors or whatever, if evidence is found to support the complaint, the obvious remedy is a re-vote, such as we saw in North Carolina last year.curtpenn said:quash said:It is not mocking Republicans to request that you read the court cases. Evidence has been considered and found lacking. I don't blame Republicans, I blame the lawyers representing the campaign.(Those that are still left; the better ones dropped off.)Oldbear83 said:
What so many people lose in all this, is how the President-elect must handle the aftermath.
If Trump had won the election, he would have the burden of making peace with the Democrats for the good of the nation. In some ways it's good that Trump lost the court cases, because election results aside, his temper is combative and a second term would bring strong conflict with the House and likely cause change he would not like in 2022 and 2024. If the courts had supported Trump and denied the certification, the results would have been explosive.
But Biden is not in a strong position. The plain fact is that a great many people think he stole the election, and he needs to reassure the nation that he is going to work for everyone, not just his party. A good way to do that would be to ask for alternatives to Dominion, since Dominion is a foreign-owned and foreign-managed company. Even if Congress ignored the request, it would be smart of Biden to say he sees the concern and wants to make sure elections are fair and above-board. He already has won the office, now he needs to show he is a real leader.
But mocking Republicans and voters who support Trump is exactly the wrong move. It's only going to cause that same outrage and chaos that he claims Trump is causing.
The election is decided. But not the course of Biden's Presidency.
I completely reject your assertion of "If the courts had supported Trump..." There is nothing in the Constitution or anywhere else that requires SCOTUS or any other court to support the president. Check the oath of office.
If, however, Trump supporters want to continue their outrage and chaos then it is entirely fair to ask them to first channel their emotions into legit court cases. Courts are where we resolve disputes. Courts are where this dispute has been heard and found lacking so far.
The lack of credibility in the judiciary renders appeals to channel emotions into legit court cases problematic. Are the cases lacking, or the courts?
But in a Presidential election, the size of the area needed to revote makes it impossible to schedule and hold a revote before the Safe Harbor date. There is also the problem of producing evidence in the time frame.
It should be obvious that there have been serious irregularities in the votes in several states. That of course does not prove fraud or even that the outcome was altered. But it certainly justifies serious investigation. In this case the Democrats do not want such an investigation, out of fear this may create doubt about Biden's election, but the way Democrats have gone about things, from blocking observers to holding private counts in the middle of the night, et cetera, has caused a lot of people to believe there is substance to the claims that Biden stole the election.
The courts find themselves in a no-win situation. There is insufficient evidence to overturn the results, but there is evidence of serious problems. Hearing a case and issuing a ruling based on that evidence means either making a decision on incomplete information or delaying certification in case the evidence revealed the claims were correct. Either way is a bad end.
Judges, even SCOTUS Justices, are human and feel pressure. It's much easier to just refuse to hear the case than face the pressure of looking like you decided the election.