US Politics Mega-thread - Page 2848

In this action, the Trump Campaign and the Individual Plaintiffs (collectively, the “Plaintiffs”) seek to discard millions of votes legally cast by Pennsylvanians from all corners – from Greene County to Pike County, and everywhere in between. In other words, Plaintiffs ask this Court to disenfranchise almost seven million voters. This Court has been unable to find any case in which a plaintiff has sought such a drastic remedy in the contest of an election, in terms of the sheer volume of votes asked to be invalidated.

One might expect that when seeking such a startling outcome, a plaintiff would come formidably armed with compelling legal arguments and factual proof of rampant corruption, such that this Court would have no option but to regrettably grant the proposed injunctive relief despite the impact it would have on such a large group of citizens. That has not happened.

Instead, this Court has been presented with strained legal arguments without merit and speculative accusations, unpled in the operative complaint and unsupported by evidence. In the United States of America, this cannot justify the disenfranchisement of a single voter, let alone all the voters of its sixth most populated state. Our people, laws, and institutions demand more. At bottom, Plaintiffs have failed to meet their burden to state a claim upon which relief may be granted. Therefore, I grant Defendants’ motions and dismiss Plaintiffs’ action with prejudice

On November 22 2020 09:36 FlaShFTW wrote:

As a law student: LMAO. This was an absolute hilarious decision to read. If I ever really need a quick buck in exchange for any morals that I might have, I'll just reach out to the Republican Party and spend a year arguing bullshit legal arguments for them.

On November 22 2020 13:56 Zooper31 wrote:
Saw some White House press briefing where the press secretary tried to defend Trump's actions by saying everyone has forgotten how Trump's election victory was handled. How his transition process was anything but smooth and that his election was never recognized. Went on to name all the accounts of the various disheartening things the Democrats have done to Trump over the last 4years.

All I could think in my head was, "So you're telling me, he's doing this out of spite? He's fundamentally hurting the foundation this country was built on by de-legitimizing our elections because he's mad people treated him poorly?"

Get the fuck over it. I can't believe so many people voted for this man.

It feels like every day at least Trump's fight to stop Biden from entering office is dwindling and this will all be over within a month. Yes, I said a month, I really do think that's how long he's gonna attempt to drag this on.

On November 22 2020 14:15 NewSunshine wrote:

Hillary conceded the day after Election Day, and Obama's team went to great lengths to ensure that the transfer of power would be smooth. There's a clip you can find of the press sec making this bullshit allegation and then cutting back to 2016/17 with Trump directly contradicting her as he thanks Obama for the great transition. It is 100% Orwellian interpretation of reality. Down is up. Ignorance is power.

Trump is casting the first stone. That isn't the standard for the President, but he is sure as hell the one deciding on his own to be an absolute shitlord to his successor. He needs to be shown that that is comprehensively unacceptable.

On November 22 2020 21:29 iamthedave wrote:


Except 50% of Republicans believe Trump actually won. To a good portion of your fellow citizens this isn't unacceptable, it's pursuit of justice.

On November 22 2020 23:38 JimmiC wrote:
The extra depressing part is if he had just told his people to all wear masks, properly distance and use great hygine they would have done that too and literally saved thousands of lives, billions of dollars who knows how many man hours.

This is the problem with dictators and wannabe dictators they could be good in theory but in practice the best you can hope for is "maybe better than the other one". It always ends up with selfish decisions, propaganda and a really depressing amount of people going along with them, or even supporting them.

On November 22 2020 14:03 ZerOCoolSC2 wrote:
As P-E, what power does Biden have to remove trump to make the transition smoother if this isn't handled by mid December? I know the day he's inaugurated, he has all the power, but is there anything he can do in the mean time to get this circus out of the way? Or is he handicapped by this nonsense?

The extra depressing part is if he had just told his people to all wear masks, properly distance and use great hygine they would have done that too and literally saved thousands of lives, billions of dollars who knows how many man hours.

On November 22 2020 22:33 Slydie wrote:
I am wondering if there is anything Trump and his cronies can say and do which will make his base abandon him. I mean, many would still follow suit if he starts rambling about aliens...