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Originally Posted by FlamesAddiction
I am really unclear what role the federal supreme court can actually play here.
From my understanding, the U.S. federal election is actually 50 separate state elections (plus the District of Colombia). Can the federal supreme court actually override state supreme courts?
When Gore lost Florida, it was the state supreme court that nixed the recount. There was some talk at the time that he could take it to a higher level, but he didn't because the process would be too damaging and had a low chance of success anyway.
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Yeah, if there's one thing that was really clear in the supreme court findings last month, it's that the federal court system does not have authority to overrule the will of the state when it comes to the running of elections, and that was the decision authored by the conservative majority.
I think the only plausible way this gets overturned is if multiple republican state houses decide that they're going to overrule their own state's results and appoint their own electors, in which case the supreme court might say that this is the state's will and they can't get involved. If it was one close result in Pennsylvania, I could maybe see that, but not multiple states all doing it despite being outside recount territory.