2/ Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced — a story that has largely flown under the nation’s political radar — that they’ll consider pre-rigging the presidential election of 2024.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
In this hypothetical 2024 election: Biden wins the popular vote and under normal circumstances would also win the Electoral College vote. However, several states with Republican-controlled legislatures decide to ignore their population's vote in favor of Biden and instead simply hand their electoral votes to DeSantis. Any voters who protest in the streets will be charged with sedition, because the election winner "is" whoever the state legislature says it is, regardless of the actual vote. DeSantis is sworn in and says there will never be elections again.
17/ Six Republicans on the Supreme Court just announced that one of the first cases they’ll decide next year could include whether that very scenario is constitutional or not. And it almost certainly is.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
18/ Article II, Section 1 of the Constitution lays out the process clearly, and it doesn’t even once mention the popular vote or the will of the people:
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
19/ “Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
22/ It’s not particularly ambiguous, even as clarified by the 12th Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
23/ Neither mentions the will of the people, although the Electoral Count Act requires each state’s governor to certify the vote before passing it along to Washington, DC. And half of those states have Democratic governors.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
27/ While the main issue being debated in Moore v Harper, scheduled for a hearing this October, is a gerrymander that conflicts with North Carolina’s constitution, the issue at the core of the debate is what’s called the “Independent State Legislature Doctrine.”
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
28/ It literally gives state legislatures the power to pre-rig or simply hand elections to the candidate of their choice.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
42/ This scenario isn’t just plausible: it’s probable. GOP-controlled states are already changing their state laws to allow for it, and
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
43/ Republican strategists are gaming out which states have Republican legislatures willing to override the votes of their people to win the White House for the Republican candidate.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
He quotes the conservative Judge J. Michael Luttig: "Trump and the Republicans can only be stopped from stealing the 2024 election at this point if the Supreme Court rejects the independent state legislature doctrine and Congress amends the Electoral Count Act to constrain Congress' own power to reject state electoral votes and decide the presidency."
49/ Trump’s January 6th effort failed because every contested state had laws on the books requiring all of their Electoral College votes to go to whichever candidate won the popular vote in the state.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
50/ That will not be the case in 2024. As we are watching, the Supreme Court — in collaboration with state legislatures through activists like Ginny Thomas — are setting that election up right now in front of us in real time.
— Thom Hartmann (@Thom_Hartmann) July 2, 2022
By the way, Luttig in August 2024 endorses the Democrats.
As of mid-2024: Meanwhile the likely election map.
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