4 hours agoWill Trump win elections through courts like Bush in 2000?
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)Taking into account the long resolution of Trump to connect opponents to courts, and his many-mentioned threat that I will do so with the election outcome not going in his favor, his call for the 2020 election to be elected at the Supreme Court does not come as a surprise. But can [...]
But can I do that?
Trump has filled the Supreme Court with conservative names, but things are not that straight. The Supreme Court is the final U.S. appeals court and there is discrimination about what cases to deal with.
Therefore, many actions are expected to take place initially in state-level courts with numerous cases already sent to Pennsylvania, with two of them being heard today, writes Guardian, records Periscope.
What has made the landscape of the current election look like a minefield is the fact that the coronary pandemic has led many countries to examine how to make the vote safer.
However, it is important to understand that electoral challenges in state courts are not a new thing, but that often only have little impact on the end of the process. And yet, a significant exception was the 2000 elections, where a series of legal challenges over the wrong voting procedures in Florida gave George W. Bush.
What's the push behind Trump's tactic?
With more than 40 cases sent to courts by the Republicans, Trump's strategy is to argue that any move taken to make the vote easier and safer in the middle of the pandemic is unconstitutional and open to fraud.
The second argument is that many of the measures providing easy voting have been taken by state officials as governors and not by state lawmakers, thus paving the way for another constitutional challenge.
The most likely scenario for lawyers is to challenge the way elections are held locally and ask that votes not be counted. In the important state of Pennsylvania, conservative groups have already challenged the counting of votes by mail, with two cases to be heard today.
However, Pennsylvania requires an unusual high rate of election evidence.
What's the worst possible scenario?
The closer the result in electoral college, the more messy things are, with Florida's memory in 2000 that is of great concern. The narrowest result led to the turbulent 35 days of legal and recount challenges, which gave George W Bush victory after the state earlier designed him as the Democrat Al Gore winner.
Bush had received 271 of the electoral votes, winning Florida by less than 600 votes.
Things are actually complicated even in the race between Biden and Trump. /Periscope
