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Originally Posted by direwolf
If the results are close, like 50/50 coin flip territory, then yea, it's likely going to the SC and Trump will be gifted the presidency.
If he's soundly defeated in a Biden landslide though, I don't see how a court would even take up the case. Sure he might cry foul and try and make a big sitnk, but I doubt it would go very far.
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Still, the court can’t choose the winner directly, what they can do is accept or reject rulings related to existing laws and the interpretation thereof. Even Boofy’s awful concurrence was based on interpreting the law as written not overriding it based on the exceptional circumstances of covid.
What I don’t know is who ultimately decides that a state election is corrupt and needs to be over-ridden by the state legislature. I’m guessing the SOC will refuse to weigh in no matter how egregious the situation is, and will simply say it’s a state legislator issue not one for the courts unless the state is clearly violating its own election laws.