IN CASE the citation of the allegedly non-precedent making Bush v. Gore decision didn't agaitate you enough, here's more of the Pro Publica article quoted in my last post.
However, opinions by Justices Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch appended to Wednesday’s decisions, when read together with Kavanaugh’s opinion, suggest more is afoot. Bush v. Gore is poised for a revival at the high court. That will probably occur in a different scenario than what happened in 2000. The election forecaster FiveThirtyEight projects only a 4% chance of the election being decided by a recount.
But Bush v. Gore has never been the dead letter it’s popularly perceived to be, and it could be a factor in a number of election battles this year. Before 2020, the Supreme Court had mentioned the case only once in two decades. But in the state courts and lower federal courts, it’s quietly but repeatedly taken on new roles over the years, serving to resolve everything from how ballot signatures are reviewed to the deadline for mail-in ballots to reach election officials. This election cycle, with the help of Kavanaugh, Alito and Gorsuch, as well as a welter of GOP lawyers pushing to take Bush v. Gore in a new direction, the case is undergoing a radical transformation. If completed, legal scholars believe, that transformation will have far-reaching and deleterious consequences for efforts to expand voting rights.
Once the Supreme Court has introduced not only new clauses in the Constitution by their fiat but, now, with Bush v. Gore deciding elections in favor of Republican-fascists, there is nothing to stop them doing what is suspected in this article. Anyone who thinks that Kavanaugh, Alito or Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett and Clarence Thomas wouldn't do that is either a C-Span or network Court reporter (idiot) or they're a Republican-fascist who are willing to scarp electoral democracy for permanent Republican-fascist oligarchy.
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