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[SagacityCM @SagacityCm]

This time-lapse of the #NYCsmoke is easily the wildest captured yet

[Nicolle Wallace @NicolleDWallace]

Incredible thread: must read

[🌊Cyndia BLUE "Unstable Genius" @malinablue]

@MuellerSheWrote @MxTuner58 The only possible thing that would then save us is if we overwhelmingly, in the midterms, altered the composition of those red state & swing state legislatures so that they were no longer GOP-controlled in 2024. With all the gerrymandering, it’s an uphill climb.

[Mueller, She Wrote @MuellerSheWrote]

This is the plan.

[Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻 @ifindkarma]

@Thom_Hartmann “Donald Trump and his allies and supporters…would attempt to overturn the 2024 election in the same way…but succeed.”
Judge Michael Luttig

#TrumpCoupAttempt #scotusIsCompromised

[Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻 @ifindkarma]

@Thom_Hartmann “Most Americans…still don’t understand how close we are to fully losing our democracy in the next year or two.”
Mehdi Hasan #SCOTUS

[Adam Rifkin 🐼🌻 @ifindkarma]

@Thom_Hartmann “…to take the next election regardless of who wins.”

#SCOTUS #SupremeCourt

[Thom Hartmann @Thom_Hartmann]

31/ “In that case, the three cited it to support the selection of a Republican slate of presidential electors.”

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30/ “The independent state legislature theory was first invoked by three conservative U.S. Supreme Court justices in the celebrated Bush v. Gore case that handed the 2000 election victory to George W. Bush.

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29/ As NPR notes:

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28/ It literally gives state legislatures the power to pre-rig or simply hand elections to the candidate of their choice.

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27/ While the main issue being debated in Moore v Harper, scheduled for a hearing this October, is a gerrymander that conflicts with North Carolina’s constitution, the issue at the core of the debate is what’s called the “Independent State Legislature Doctrine.”

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26/ to set the rules for contests even if their actions violated state constitutions and resulted in extreme partisan gerrymandering for congressional seats.”

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25/ “The Supreme Court on Thursday said it will consider what would be a radical change in the way federal elections are conducted, giving state legislatures sole authority…

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24/ Which brings us to the Supreme Court’s probable 2023 decision. As Robert Barnes wrote yesterday for The Washington Post:

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23/ Neither mentions the will of the people, although the Electoral Count Act requires each state’s governor to certify the vote before passing it along to Washington, DC. And half of those states have Democratic governors.

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22/ It’s not particularly ambiguous, even as clarified by the 12th Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887.

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21/ “The President of the Senate shall, in the Presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the Certificates, and the Votes shall then be counted. The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President…”

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20/ “The Electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by Ballot for two Persons … which List they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the Seat of the Government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate.