• wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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    8 hours ago

    Fortunately, the constitution is pretty clear on this.

    Unfortunately, the supreme court doesn’t seem to care about the constitution…

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    24 hours ago

    The Supreme Court should tell him the elections belong to the states and that he doesn’t have authority, but who knows with the kangaroo Supreme Court we have.

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        9 hours ago

        They just rule that nobody has standing to sue to enforce constitutional provisions. They’ve already done that with the Emoluments Clause, and they’ve been working to undermine the 14th Amendment using similar tactics.

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    23 hours ago

    These people are just such assholes. I’d love for some Democrats to start using that logic for the next Democratic President: “Well, the people elected ____; therefore, we should just get whatever it is the hell that we want, even if it’s against the law and not the role of the Executive Branch”

    I’m sure all the cons will just nod their heads and accept that everyone voted someone in, just like they calmly accepted Biden and Obama and Bill Clinton being in the WH. Right?

    This jerkoff has zero evidence that there are any issues of election integrity that would require this administration to meddle in it.

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      21 hours ago

      That’s the problem with people who act in bad faith. You can’t throw it in their face because they know it’s hypocritical and they revel in the fact that they have the power to do it while the other side cannot. If anything, they think acting without ethics or integrity makes them smarter and more deserving to win. That the ends justify the means, and the fact that they’ll use extreme means only confirms their ends are more important.

      It describes every Trump-era Republican political actor in memory. McConnell, Trump, Miller, Johnson, McCarthy, etc…

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    23 hours ago

    I feel if the supreme court tries to rule against the states on this, it will be a tipping point of sorts. It’s possible to put up with some heinous decisions and try to fight for another day, but this one I think is a line that some states just can’t accept and will have to fight back. Hopefully even this corrupt SC won’t be dumb enough to try and pull this one off.

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      19 hours ago

      I think we’ve passed a few of those lines already.

      Deploying the National Guard, withholding grants for unrelated nonsense, voter data, and pretty much anything related to ICE.

      I’ll believe it when I see it.