Modnote: Off-topic, let’s not go down this hijack please.
This is just a guidance, not a warning. Nothing on your permanent record.
I doubt that Trump could ever admit that, even privately to himself. Even if by some whim of a perverse deity, Trump manages to hold onto the big chair in the Oval Office, I expect at least thrice weekly rants and tweets about the evils of those who would oppose him. This will never end so long as Trump lives.
Thank you.
People had a right to vote for Trump. He was eligible for the office.
Trump isn’t the first asshole, incompetent, moron to get elected. (And maybe some think he’s great, that is their right.) He won’t be the last, unless we stop having elections. If he got elected again, that’s the way it goes.
This disgusting crap that’s going on now is why he’s off the scale. Not his policies, his character.
I’m actually sure people have tampered in elections. But you have to have proof. There is none. People going along with this should be ashamed of themselves.
This one sums up my initial reaction to this suit, and IMHO is the tack the court will take.
Election disputes are not a controversy between the states. Texas (or any other state) has no basis to challenge how another state runs their elections, and if Trump or voters in those states have an issue with it they should file in those states and prove their claims. They have tried and failed to do so.
I know others jumped on your Trump support, but I want to acknowledge your recognition that this is an absurdity. And, I think you would agree, a rather anti-democratic position to take.
I do wonder if any of the post-election actions by Trump and his legal team have made you reconsider your support for the man? To me it has only reinforced my belief that no matter how much one may like his policies, positions, or approach to government (and I do not, but I can acknowledge that some do), his basic disdain for the American system of government and the norms that enable our democracy is too dangerous to allow him to continue in office. But that may be off topic so I will understand if you don’t respond.
Nicely put.
I was so unsurprised at how Trump responded to losing (ie “I didn’t lose, I was cheated, whine, ,whine, cry”)
What I can’t understand is how any of his supporters/voters could have been surprised by what has happened post-election. It was entirely predictable. It was obviously going to happen.
Jumping off the train after it has been set afire by the engineer, jumped the tracks and gone over the cliff at full speed doesn’t even rate a golf clap, in my opinion.
IANAL, but I read a bit of it and I had the same reaction. I found the arguments ridiculous.
I noted it was filed by John Eastman. Wasn’t he the conservative legal scholar who claimed Kamala Harris was ineligible to be VP?
Agreed.
Now it looks like 17 states have filed.
Another thumbs-up on your honesty. I won’t pass judgement on why this is the first you’ve (as far as I can recall) criticized Trump–you’re a lawyer, and I’m not.
As was mentioned by other posters earlier, it’s a cheap way to show their own constituents that they’re doing ‘something’ while the Texas AG is the one who will get the ridicule, and they have pretty much zero cost/investment. Which I find despicable, but unsurprising.
Yep. Same guy. Still full of shit.
They should be more than embarrassed. They should all be voted out of office. They won’t be, but that’s what they deserve.
This is the fundamental divergence and damage that the Trumpian side is inflicting – the rejection of “you win some, you lose some”. The view that there is something wrong with you and me if we can accept “wrongness” winning and “righteousness” losing, and that the Law is not there to establish fair play but to make “Right” beat “Wrong”, by whatever means necessary.
This also eflects the personal ethos of Trump, whose own words reveal that in his universe there are not people who lost, but Losers. Who are Losers because they were weak. And people who accept the call of the refs w/o a bench-clearing brawl are weak.
I’ve been reading the Cicchetti Declaration In support of the original filing, and it is such happy horseshit that it’s a shame that he’s not a member of some organization that he can be booted from.
Essentially, even though he has a statistical background, he has no background in politics whatsoever, and he bases his attack on the election by arguing that 1) Biden’s improvement over Clinton is statistically implausible, and 2) the late ballots that arrived couldn’t possibly have been that different from the early ballots. From all that, he concludes that the odds of Biden having actually won the election are less than one in a quadrillion.
It’s just complete stupidity. You can find prior elections where someone’s results change by more than that. And we already know why late ballots look different from early ballots.
I just shake my head at what is either utter venality or utter stupidity, or I guess more likely both.
Start on page 20 if you want to see for yourself.
But Trump’s 2020 10 million vote improvement over Trump’s 2016 performance isn’t? 
PA AG speaking out against the Texas lawsuit and the 17 AGs that joined in on the Rachel Maddow show.
Quote from the statement from the 3 AGs of the states of MI, WI and PA.
Do we know when we’ll hear anything from the Supremes on this?
Stop! In the name of law…
You just won the internet.