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There’s a danger that the US supreme court, not voters, picks the next president
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this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2024
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That's not really the point.
The higher the turnout, the better. It's easy for them to do a repeat of the 2000 election. But not if there is a wide enough margin.
They'll declare fraud and a stolen election anyway... The many lawsuits the republicans will fire up, almost assures that at the very least a handfull will get to the supreme court quickly, will be a certainty...
And, unless there is a shift somewhere, the supreme court will proclaim that there is enough suspicion of shenanigans against a trump win that they'll just decide amongst themselves who will win the election, ignoring the "people's" vote altogether...
Perhaps the military is willing to hold the supreme court accountable, because I do not see anyone else able to do it right now.
Wouldn't it be immensely entertaining if the day after the election all current supreme court justices had vanished?
Doesn't fuckin matter we all vote so hard they can't lie about it. We're not Belarus yet.
I'd like to hope that the American people wouldn't stomach such a brazen coup, but I think that requires Harris to win in a landslide. If it's even remotely close centrists will shrug and say it's the will of the people just like they shrugged at Gore.
This is the real thing. It needs to be blasted far and wide that SCOTUS does not have the power to choose. Congress does that on Jan 6th if there's still a problem. If they pull this shit then we need to be in the streets.
This is all just speculation. Maybe that's how it will happen, maybe not.
But the more votes and the more states won, the harder it is for them to bullshit their way through.
So everyone should vote.