Captain Kinopio wrote:Alvin Flummux wrote:Sometimes I think Pelosi is alright, and sometimes I wish she'd take a long walk off a short pier. More often than not it's the latter.
Either way, I don't think following convention and being civil in the face of fascism is a particularly good strategy. It's like she's politely walking into the gas chamber so as not to cause a fuss.
This seems to be the attitude they’re meandering into the election with. It seems increasingly certain to me that Trump will get a second term even probably with a much bigger popular vote defeat.
The Trump campaign is reportedly 'discussing contingency plans to bypass election results'
Brendan Morrow
September 23, 2020, 11:31 am
President Trump's campaign is discussing "contingency plans" that would involve bypassing the result of November's election, reports The Atlantic.
The report delves into possible scenarios if Trump apparently loses the 2020 presidential election but doesn't concede, noting that although we're used to electors being selected based on the popular vote, "nothing in the Constitution says it has to be that way." Citing Republican Party sources, The Atlantic says that Trump's campaign is "discussing contingency plans to bypass election results and appoint loyal electors in battleground states where Republicans hold the legislative majority."
The campaign would reportedly assert that this step was necessary due to claims of supposed voter fraud, which experts have noted is extraordinarily rare, ahead of the "safe harbor" deadline to appoint 538 electors on Dec. 8.
"Trump would ask state legislators to set aside the popular vote and exercise their power to choose a slate of electors directly," The Atlantic reports. "The longer Trump succeeds in keeping the vote count in doubt, the more pressure legislators will feel to act before the safe-harbor deadline expires."
A Trump campaign legal adviser who spoke to The Atlantic said that in this scenario, "the state legislatures will say, 'All right, we've been given this constitutional power. We don't think the results of our own state are accurate, so here's our slate of electors that we think properly reflect the results of our state." Lawrence Tabas, chair of the Pennsylvania Republican Party, also told The Atlantic he has discussed the direct appointment of electors with the Trump campaign, saying, "I've mentioned it to them, and I hope they're thinking about it too." The Trump campaign said it is "fighting for a free and fair election."
This potential scenario is just one part of the broader piece in which experts warn "conditions are ripe for a constitutional crisis." Read more at The Atlantic.
Sources:
Yahoo,
The AtlanticIf this gambit is tried and fails, it'll probably lead, I would hope, to the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact being reenergized to the degree that the Electoral College finally gets abolished.
brilliant
