The election litigation thread

Frankfooter

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If you don't know what S means, you've overlooked the start of the thread.

While I'm not sure why this is any concern of yours, I'll offer a brief explanation. It should be obvious to you that I am not trying to engage in any exchange with Frank. I've made that clear to him. He is, however, perpetually trying to engage in exchanges with me (something about him being the guardian of truth, justice, and the Canadian way). I've tried responding in detail to his posts before. It's pointless. His posts really are all stupid, in such a multiplicity of ways - everything from mistating the arguments he purports to answer, to meaningless trolling, to irrational leaps of logic, to asserting himself as an expert in areas he can't possibly be one, to restating the same unpersuasive points and materials over and over, to weird and unfounded assertions of groupthink support for his opinions, and much, much more. It's a chore rather than a pleasure to disassemble each one of his posts, and really it's to no avail. He just comes back with more of the same. I honestly believe that no one cares about such exchanges anyway. Frank is the guy who always shows up at the same parties you do, annoys everyone with his inane opinions but can't even accept a polite, "please excuse me, but I'd really prefer not to talk to you about this". Instead he follows you around this party, inserting himself into your conversations with others.

So I'm trying something different. What's interesting is that it hasn't changed his approach one bit, thereby confirming everything I've said above. However, so far, I'm enjoying it much better, and it sure saves on the keystrokes. If it's bothering you, it's pretty easy for you to avoid reading, given how short my posts to Frank are.
And I enjoy the fact that each time I"m proven correct, like with the 60 cases thrown out, Rudy's admission that his cases weren't about fraud and the SC dismissal, you just dig deeper.
You are the flat earther of the board, S.

Each dismissal is an admission that you lost the debate about 30 pages ago, yet here you are still pretending that fraud will be proven in one or two years.
Each S is another shovel of dirt deeper.

How many cases have I been right on?
60

How many cases have you backed that have been dismissed as a joke?
60

How long did you back James Fields before you had to switch from bud plug to dutch oven?
 

Valcazar

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2 years beyond inauguration? Valcazar thinks the only remedy available would be impeachment, and as we know that remedy could not be applied if the President's party controlled either the House or over 1/3 of the Senate, and was determined to keep him in office.

Have a look at this article: https://fivethirtyeight.com/feature...tion-was-a-fraud-the-constitution-doesnt-say/
Article agrees with me. There is no process set down. Any such process would be blazing a new path, since the original conception didn't account for excessive partisanship.
There are may reasons running a patched up version of the second draft of a modern democratic republic has serious problems.

Don't think the GOP haven't noticed this. The threat to representative democracy is real.
 

kherg007

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True. Remember Trump was doing EXTRA legal things throughout, like calling electors, secretaries of state, other reps asking them to change the vote or slate of electors. USA needs a lot of patches right now.
 

Valcazar

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Does that mean you didn't read the article? Interestingly it was written by someone looking at removing Trump during the currency of his term, not looking at the 2020 election.

My question to you, and to others (except Frank) was simply whether anyone thinks there is any ability to re-run an election that is found to be fraudulent after the date that the sitting president was inaugurated. If not, that conclusion has some pretty profound consequences for elections and politics in the United States.
I don't think anyone would go for it. At best you would get "wait until the next election" after an impeachment.

That the US has no ability to call an election for President with a vote of non-confidence (or its equivalent) is a serious flaw.

If there was enough public outrage, impeachment and removal might work. If it all gets gridlocked, there is probably no solution other than violence unless the various sides go out of their way to come up with a compromise.

Think about it, there is no provision in the Constitution to rerun an election with problems as it happens let alone if it is discovered later. If there is doubt in the election, the electors get challenged and/or the vote gets thrown to the House. The founders had an idea about what to do if the election seemed compromised and it didn't involve running an election do-over. That might not have been a smart choice, but it was a choice.
 

Valcazar

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I didn't avoid your question. I actually answered your question by referring you to the article, at least in part. If you are asking me the hypothetical of what I think should happen (rather than a legal opinion) if a President is elected and inaugurated fraudulently, I think if the fraud is directed by that President, he/she should simply be removed and a new election ordered for which the deposed President is an ineligible candidate, if it was directed by other parties, there should be a removal and new election ordered where both candidates can, again, stand for election.
Who would remove the President? In either of your cases, who has the power to do that?
As written, the Constitution has one function that allows that, and it is impeachment and removal.

However, as the article discloses, there is serious doubt by many whether the constitution can be interpreted to allow for this remedy. While impeachment is possible, it can be easily thwarted. I'm not confident that even clear fraud would force BOTH parties to allow that process to operate.
We have pretty good evidence from this year that no, there is no reason to believe any amount of evidence would force both parties to do that. There is no way to FORCE the issue.

What leads to this discussion is not the personalities involved in this election, but rather the inability or unwillingness of the legal system to allow the allegations being made to be fully and openly tested in a prompt fashion.
What allegations? There have been no allegations of fraud submitted in court as far as I know. There have been people complaining they didn't like the outcome. We don't know how the court would react to serious allegations of fraud.

As a result, it appears more and more likely to me that this litigation, as well as legislative branch hearings into the election security issues being raised, are likely to continue as much as 1 -2 years into the next presidency before being finally resolved, and that more and more allegations will be advanced as the process moves forward. What the final assessment of these allegations will be is difficult to predict.
There seems little reason to believe the litigation will proceed. I'm not sure under what claim any of it would. Legislative investigation can absolutely proceed and I expect it will. It will probably result in a report
 

Frankfooter

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Who would remove the President? In either of your cases, who has the power to do that?
As written, the Constitution has one function that allows that, and it is impeachment and removal.
The GOP and Trump has made the system too partisan for impeachment to work anymore.
Nixon had the decency to resign, Clinton's impeachment was closer to what the GOP now calls a witch hunt.
Trump's impeachment was legit and should have had him turfed from power.

Now no party will ever allow their leader to be impeached again, it can't happen as the EC and senate won't give any party control over the senate with enough votes to turf someone.
That's more serious than all of bud's whining about losing. The electoral system is divided between too many states with too many different rules and systems to be easily totally messed with.
Even with the SC favouring rule changes for the GOP its not nearly enough to sway the vote.
 

Dutch Oven

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And I enjoy the fact that each time I"m proven correct, like with the 60 cases thrown out, Rudy's admission that his cases weren't about fraud and the SC dismissal, you just dig deeper.
You are the flat earther of the board, S.

Each dismissal is an admission that you lost the debate about 30 pages ago, yet here you are still pretending that fraud will be proven in one or two years.
Each S is another shovel of dirt deeper.

How many cases have I been right on?
60

How many cases have you backed that have been dismissed as a joke?
60

How long did you back James Fields before you had to switch from bud plug to dutch oven?
S
 

Frankfooter

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Here is a report released by Peter Navarro providing an overview of election irregularities:

Holy shit is that ever S.

I clicked on the first link that 'proves' there was bribery, accusing Biden of buying votes.
The story does no such thing, it says that Biden offered gifts to those who could prove they voted, but nowhere in that article does it say that they were bribed based on WHO they voted for.
You can't call it bribery if you just reward people for voting and they weren't paid by who they voted for.
All you're doing is encouraging voting in general.

Bud, I know you'll call this S, but this is the story of all your claims.
If you look even slightly close at them they are all bullshit.

S
 

mandrill

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Here is a report released by Peter Navarro providing an overview of election irregularities:

"Bannon's War Room"?!...... Now that's a guarantee of high quality, unbiased, professional reporting!

The issue isn't whether various right wing characters will not simply invent horseshit and lie through their ass, if they can get some advantage therefrom. THAT'S been proven multiple times.

The issue is whether their lawyers will risk disbarment by repeating the same lies in a courtroom and so far, they haven't dared to do that.

So you can produce numerous lying shitweasels on various far right websites saying all kinds of shit. That's proof of nothing except these folks are liars.
 

Dutch Oven

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Holy shit is that ever S.

I clicked on the first link that 'proves' there was bribery, accusing Biden of buying votes.
The story does no such thing, it says that Biden offered gifts to those who could prove they voted, but nowhere in that article does it say that they were bribed based on WHO they voted for.
You can't call it bribery if you just reward people for voting and they weren't paid by who they voted for.
All you're doing is encouraging voting in general.

Bud, I know you'll call this S, but this is the story of all your claims.
If you look even slightly close at them they are all bullshit.

S
S
 

SchlongConery

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If you don't know what S means, you've overlooked the start of the thread.

While I'm not sure why this is any concern of yours, I'll offer a brief explanation. It should be obvious to you that I am not trying to engage in any exchange with Frank. I've made that clear to him. He is, however, perpetually trying to engage in exchanges with me (something about him being the guardian of truth, justice, and the Canadian way). I've tried responding in detail to his posts before. It's pointless. His posts really are all stupid, in such a multiplicity of ways - everything from mistating the arguments he purports to answer, to meaningless trolling, to irrational leaps of logic, to asserting himself as an expert in areas he can't possibly be one, to restating the same unpersuasive points and materials over and over, to weird and unfounded assertions of groupthink support for his opinions, and much, much more. It's a chore rather than a pleasure to disassemble each one of his posts, and really it's to no avail. He just comes back with more of the same. I honestly believe that no one cares about such exchanges anyway. Frank is the guy who always shows up at the same parties you do, annoys everyone with his inane opinions but can't even accept a polite, "please excuse me, but I'd really prefer not to talk to you about this". Instead he follows you around this party, inserting himself into your conversations with others.

So I'm trying something different. What's interesting is that it hasn't changed his approach one bit, thereby confirming everything I've said above. However, so far, I'm enjoying it much better, and it sure saves on the keystrokes. If it's bothering you, it's pretty easy for you to avoid reading, given how short my posts to Frank are.

So.... in other words Frank is always wrong and you are always right?
 
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Dutch Oven

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So.... in other words Frank is always wrong and you are always right?
False dichotomy.

There may be reasonable counterarguments to the points I make (when, in fact, I am actually expressing an opinion), but Frank's posts NEVER advance such reasonable positions. His posts suffer from all the flaws I listed, and more. They are tiresome to respond to.
 

Perry Mason

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False dichotomy.

There may be reasonable counterarguments to the points I make (when, in fact, I am actually expressing an opinion), but Frank's posts NEVER advance such reasonable positions. His posts suffer from all the flaws I listed, and more. They are tiresome to respond to.
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Frankfooter

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False dichotomy.

There may be reasonable counterarguments to the points I make (when, in fact, I am actually expressing an opinion), but Frank's posts NEVER advance such reasonable positions. His posts suffer from all the flaws I listed, and more. They are tiresome to respond to.
And yet the courts have argued with me 60 times and not once for you.
You're stuck trying to claim you are more reasonable than 60 courts and the supreme court.
 
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Dutch Oven

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And yet the courts have argued with me 60 times and not once for you.
You're stuck trying to claim you are more reasonable than 60 courts and the supreme court.
S
 

Dutch Oven

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I just noticed something else about you. Any reason you sign your posts "Perry" when your name is already shown in the sidebar? Just making sure everyone knows it's really you? LOL! Or is it that you believe you really are Perry Mason! Either way, kinda funny.
 
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