(09-23-2020, 08:15 PM)JagNGeorgia Wrote:

(09-23-2020, 06:54 PM)MojoKing Wrote: I mean we don’t even have to say if this election goes to the courts.

It’s going to, Trump is gonna deny the results of the election no matter what. And having a Supreme Court decide that Trump gets to be president, is well... autocracy... we’re descending into banana republic where his family runs our country.

And all of that would absolutely be avoided if Democrats weren’t trying add unverified mail-in ballots that could be completed and sent even after the election. Keep it like every other election and there’s nothing to contest. 

I mean, it won’t stop Joe Biden (ask Hillary), but you wouldn’t have any issues with Trump.

I had some time to look into it today, and I don't think this election is going to go to the supreme Court.

If you look at the bush v Gore decision, that started because Gore's people sued in State Court. But the US supreme Court found that state courts don't really have jurisdiction for this kind of thing. The US supreme Court said that the controlling statute is title 3 of the US Code. The US Supreme court ruled in favor of Bush, but that ruling just moved the process to the next phase, which is counting votes in the Senate per 3 u.s.c. When you read title 3 of the US code, it does not give the US supreme Court any role in solving disputes about who won which state. These disputes start when one senator and one member of Congress agree that something is fishy about one state.  If there is more than one set of ballots from the state, the Senate and the house are directed to vote separately about which set is the real one. If the Senate and House disagree, the decision of which presidential candidate wins that state's electors goes to the governor of that state.
The only way for the US supreme Court to change the outcome, would be if they decided that title 3 of the US code was suddenly unconstitutional, that it took too much power away from the state legislature or some nonsense like that.
There is still a path for both sides to change the outcome with shenanigans if they want to.  But it doesn't involve the courts.

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