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LoZguy709 posted...

It's really hard for me to see even your typical voter just being okay with the Supreme Court retroactively changing the results of an election (in effect) by retroactively changing the rules (in effect and in practice) and majorly changing the electoral process in this country. At that point, there would be no reason for someone to cast a vote for their favored presidential candidate, as the state leaders from past years' ballots would be the ones to ultimately make the call, regardless of where the votes fall.

There is absolutely no constitutional right in the US for citizens to vote for president. The only reason such votes happen is that the state legislatures got tired of having a presidential election tire fire in their chambers every 4 years, so they punted their state's electoral votes to elections.

So the Sleazy Six on the supreme court would have much more legal justification than is usual for their antics if they were to get a case from a state under Republican rule where the state legislature tries to overrule an election in Trump's favor.