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Republicans are ready for a post-election lawfare blitz

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      1. mudwall jackson

        clearly marc elias way back in 2014 foresaw the rise of donald trump and his cohnesque tactic of throwing massive amounts of legal excrement at the wall.

        more seriously, the amount of money the republicans raised isn't the problem. the democrats can counter with money of their own. no amount of money could have helped trump in 2020, and i suspect, all things being equal, the same will be true this year. rather the problem is what happens if harris wins and some of trump's legal excrement makes it up to the supremes, especially if he attacks the federal election reform law congress enacted after jan. 6? using roberts' metaphor, are they going to call balls and strikes according to the rule book, or are they going to widen the zone to benefit trump?

    1. Yehouda

      Exactly.
      Lawsuits got them nowhere in 2020, and on their own will get them nowhere in 2024. But they intend this time to also do threats and violence against election officers, and other crimical acts (like destroying ballots).

  5. realrobmac

    I wonder if they can sue to overturn the votes in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and Michigan in that one district they like in Texas?

  6. realrobmac

    But here's a non-snarky comment. Why aren't Democrats doing the same thing? I know we like to be the good guys, supporting American values and all that. But what good does unilaterally disarming do? Or bringing a knife to a gunfight?

    1. SeanT

      I would like to see campaign $ versus DNC dollars. I think Marc Elias is being funded by the campaign, not the DNC. for example

    2. lawnorder

      It's been reported that the Democrats have at least one law firm on retainer in every state, more than one in the high population states. They ARE doing the same thing.

  7. D_Ohrk_E1

    Are you watching what the Harris campaign is doing right now? They've got several concurrent rallies across the country, coordinated to switch back and forth between venues of tens of thousands of people, streamed live. It's one nationwide pre-election rally party of hundreds of thousands of people.

    They're doing something no one else has done before, at a scale that has never been accomplished, inside or outside of politics. This is wild, peeps.

    1. jte21

      In many ways, we're just no longer a nation of serious people. I will simply never fathom how millions of grown-ass people can look at Donald Fucking Trump and think "now there's a real leader." It's a catastrophic failure of our civil, educational, and religious institutions from coast to coast that such a malignant choad was able to rise to national prominence like this.

      1. call_me_navarro

        for context one needs to know that i am a 60+ year old, white, 8th generation texas native who has been a lifelong democrat. i had the privilege of being a jackson delegate to my state democratic convention in 84 as well as an obama delegate to the state convention in 08. i'm not trying to set up an "appeal to authority" just describing my context.

        i have studied my fellow texans for many years and it is my belief that trump's mass appeal comes from his hatreds. he expresses hatred towards the same groups they hate. he has promised to bust all the right heads and make all of "those people" remember their place. that's it . . . that's the joke.

        edited to get the number of generations right.

  9. cld

    J.D.Vance --he looks like he went to a Halloween party dressed as 'some dick' and loved it so much that now he won't take the costume off and he wants to go to school wearing it.

  10. gibba-mang

    There were a couple of incidents that happened in the Philadelphia suburbs that are of note and will surely be litigated further if Trump thinks he's losing.

    https://whyy.org/articles/bucks-county-pennsylvania-mail-ballots-trump-legal-challenge/

    Apparently eligible voter stood in line to request a paper ballot and were turned away at 5pm by some election officials even though the rule is if you're in line by 5pm, they still have to process your request. Trump sued and they extended the deadline to last Friday at 5pm. What's kinds strange is these folks could have gone online and requested one over the past year.

    I voted in person today because I'm very fearful that Trumpco will attempt to invalidate paper ballots.

  12. zic

    I still believe this election is over, it was when women began early voting.

    It's shown in Trump's demeanor and increased desperation. His worst nightmare is happening again. His crowds are smaller, he's had his big grand show at the Garden, with his name up in lights. It's the end of his descent down the escalator all those years ago.

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