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"The Republicans are already preparing legal challenges to any name change on ballots"
And the #SCOTUS would decide on those challenges.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C9l41vgOAGj/
If #Biden is replaced, the Trump-Staffed Supreme Court will decide who wins the election.
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@ArneBab The balloting is a state issue, not Federal, so not really a Supreme Court issue.
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@volkris Didn’t the supreme court declare that they can grab every case?
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@ArneBab No it absolutely did not.
That's not how the legal system works in the US, so anyone who told you that they did is lying.
I hate to keep beating this drum but that really is what it comes down to, certain special interests putting out information that is flat out the opposite of what is really happening. And we need to call them out on it and we need to stop listening to them.
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@volkris did you check the source I quoted?
If that is wrong, I appreciate you beating this drum!
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@ArneBab My point is that we should stop listening to sources that are wrong. There are so many sources out there that are telling us misinformation because it gets clicks, and we need to stop listening to them. We need to call them out for being sources of misinformation.
Elections are state matters, not Federal. The Supreme Court is not really involved. Anyone trying to tell a story about the Supreme Court getting involved here is misleading you Aunt we need to stop listening to these outfits that are selling stories that are just outright false.
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@volkris I have to ask that: what’s your source?
People are wrong on the internet, and like me, you are a person on the internet.
And I quoted a person on the internet.
So to get out of that and to verifiable facts, do you have a reference to an established legal expert backing that the supreme court cannot involve itself when Biden gets replaced?
(I don’t. I have the reference I posted, which as far as I can tell is someone from within the political establishment)
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@volkris My source is https://www.ocasiocortez.com/
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@ArneBab Well my source tends to be linked below. I'm sorry AOC doesn't seem to have the vaguest idea of how the US government actually operates.
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
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@volkris that’s not a legal opinion. I’m from Germany and I know a lot of places where our constitution is clear but laws do not really reflect that — which leads to lawsuits that go up till the constitutional court. But that would be SCOTUS in the US, so if it goes there, it’s clear how they would decide since the judge stuffing by Trump.
Roe v. Wade was also considered clear until the Supreme Court decided that the constitution meant something different.
@ArneBab Well the US might operate differently from Germany.
No, that's not how it works in the US, that's just not how the US legal system operates.
@volkris This is not a source. I’d prefer to say something different, but I know why I explicitly asked abort a reference to an established legal expert.
Those things typically aren’t a simple as I’d like them to be.
@ArneBab okay fine, here you go
https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/constitution-transcript
@volkris that’s again the constitution, but not "a reference to an established legal expert backing that the supreme court cannot involve itself when Biden gets replaced".
If such a reference does not exist, it would be high time for someone to fund legal experts who explicitly check this and publish the result.
Because saying “I can read it written in legal text right here, isn’t that clear?” is not how law works, though it might be better if it did.
@ArneBab of course it's how law works. And we can see that play out everyday as we watch Court decisions come down and impact the real world.
That's how we know our legal rights and responsibilities. We point to law. Like, driving down the road we point to the speed limit sign to know that we can drive this fast.
Yes, this is how law works.
@volkris Court decisions in the US play out a lot based on case law. Some court once decided something so this is how a law is to be interpreted.
Even if that isn’t what you think when reading the law.
Except that the current SCOTUS decided to reverse that, as seen in Roe v. Waden, and to just use their own interpretation of what may have been intended.
Any time you point to the constitution, you implicitly say that the SCOTUS will decide. And you already pointed to the constitution twice.