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It’s over.
On Friday, Chief Justice Roberts told Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton to get off his lawn, and take his hoodlum AG friends with him. This morning Wisconsin’s Supreme Court booted Trump’s effort to toss out 250,000 votes in the state’s largest counties. And the electoral college has already commenced voting, likely mooting the president’s last, straggling federal appeals.
Everything else may be falling apart, but the judiciary held.
Or could it be … a case of bullying gone horribly wrong? Chief White House Xenophobe Stephen Miller made his argument to a skeptical crew at Fox and Friends this morning.
KILMEADE: Your legal team, in almost every state — 50 times — lost. Some with Trump judges. So, do you have the worst legal team, who just don’t seem to be present a good case? Or are you too late, and this case should have been brought before the election?
MILLER: We did bring these cases before the election. But what you have to appreciate and realize is that the pressure from the corrupt corporate media to make everybody cave and bend is overwhelming. It is overwhelming. And so, yes, judges are caving.
Yes, Justices Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Barrett were all cruelly bullied into refusing that very excellent case brought four weeks after the election based on Texas’s right to challenge Pennsylvania’s voting laws. Only Justices Alito and Thomas were brave enough to peek their heads over the parapet and say that they would have granted the case, although they “would not have granted any other relief.”
Obviously the “corrupt corporate media” got to U.S. District “Trump Judge” Brett Ludwig, forcing him to cower in fear, scribbling, “A sitting president who did not prevail in his bid for reelection has asked for federal court help in setting aside the popular vote based on disputed issues of election administration, issues he plainly could have raised before the vote occurred. This Court has allowed plaintiff the chance to make his case and he has lost on the merits. In his reply brief, plaintiff ‘asks that the Rule of Law be followed.’ It has been.”
When Third Circuit “Trump Judge” Stephanos Bibas wrote for a unanimous panel of Republican-appointed judges that “Charges of unfairness are serious. But calling an election unfair does not make it so. Charges require specific allegations and then proof. We have neither here,” he was probably just worried that Marc Elias was going to sit on him and steal his lunch money.
As is his wont, Miller said a lot of cray sh*t this morning — we believe that is the technical term. He promised alternative slates of electors in swing states, claimed there was “more than enough time” to overturn the results of the electoral college vote, and blamed Democrats for unilaterally changing election laws in places like Georgia.
Trump campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis was equally nutty, but more succinct.
What the Supreme Court needs is JESUS, just as the Founding Fathers intended.
Only thirty-eight days until we never have to listen to these ridiculous people ever again.
Elizabeth Dye (@5DollarFeminist) lives in Baltimore where she writes about law and politics.