Trump runs for POTUS/ Trumped Up! Part VII

What about the Supreme Court?

Given Trump's penchant for litigation can he stall the transfer of Power by challenging ballot counts taking it to a split Supreme Court? I can foresee challenges in several states taking months to sort out if the 4-4 court would sort it out at all. At the very least Trump/Bannon/Stone have thought of this.
 
Spindrift said:
The New York Daily News gave Donald a remarkable, nothing like it before, endorsement:

http://interactive.nydailynews.com/2016/10/daily-news-editorial-bury-trump-in-landslide/
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OUCH!
I have never seen a major newspaper give a candidate a negative endorsement before.
I thought the Washington Post was tough on Trump,but in a intellectual sort of way. The Daily News went for the throat. I am betting that Jeff Bezos is emailint the Daily news Editor a Thumbs Up.....
 
cantonear1968 said:
Given Trump's penchant for litigation can he stall the transfer of Power by challenging ballot counts taking it to a split Supreme Court? I can foresee challenges in several states taking months to sort out if the 4-4 court would sort it out at all. At the very least Trump/Bannon/Stone have thought of this.
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Not really. He can whine like the little bitch he is but Hillary Clinton will still become the President of the United States on January 20th, 2017.
 
Tony Stark said:
Maybe, but Palin didn't have a bunch of rich customers that she alienated.
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cantonear1968 said:
I agree. No universities or Wall St will be calling for a speech. And the average person in Pennsylvania will not be shelling out $100 to hear the Donald.
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He's still drawing crowds now. There is a good percentage that will pay to hear him speak about what an awful person Hillary is and how the election was rigged.
 
Spindrift said:
He's still drawing crowds now. There is a good percentage that will pay to hear him speak about what an awful person Hillary is and how the election was rigged.
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I respectfully disagree. It's one thing to show up at a rally. Quite another to have to pay to get inside the door. At least in the numbers for Hilary money, for lack of a better term.
 
Tony Stark said:
I never gave any indication that I would do it because I wouldn't. And even if I would I don't know why you would expect me to admit so in public. It would be very easy for the SS to find me.
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You would be admitting to an impossibility. He won't win so we can discuss the counter factual.

If you insist on waiting until November 9th and a Clinton victory, then I will wait.
 
cantonear1968 said:
I respectfully disagree. It's one thing to show up at a rally. Quite another to have to pay to get inside the door. At least in the numbers for Hilary money, for lack of a better term.
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I thought the same thing about Palin. But there are enough idiots out there that she makes a nice living.
 
cantonear1968 said:
Given Trump's penchant for litigation can he stall the transfer of Power by challenging ballot counts taking it to a split Supreme Court? I can foresee challenges in several states taking months to sort out if the 4-4 court would sort it out at all. At the very least Trump/Bannon/Stone have thought of this.
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No.Unless he has a actual strong case,his suits will be thrown out of court (there are "nuiscance " suits over elections all the time) very quickly as without Merit,and the Supreme Court will simply refuse to hear the case.
Trump usual legal gimmicks will not work in this case;this is too important to allow nuiscence law suits to gum up the works.
And, no,he cannot stall the transfer of power;the Constitutiion...the Supreme Law of the Law, is very defienet on this point;the new president will take office in January.
 
cantonear1968 said:
Given Trump's penchant for litigation can he stall the transfer of Power by challenging ballot counts taking it to a split Supreme Court? I can foresee challenges in several states taking months to sort out if the 4-4 court would sort it out at all. At the very least Trump/Bannon/Stone have thought of this.
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I think there may be a misinterpretation. There isn't a single national election, there are 50. (forget the pedantics about DC, etc). He would have to challenge multiple ones, and if the results aren't close I'm not sure what the argument would be. Once each state certifies its results, I think that is pretty much it.
 
dudalb said:
No.Unless he has a actual strong case,his suits will be thrown out of court (there are "nuiscance " suits over elections all the time) very quickly as without Merit,and the Supreme Court will simply refuse to hear the case.
Trump usual legal gimmicks will not work in this case;this is too important to allow nuiscence law suits to gum up the works.
And, no,he cannot stall the transfer of power;the Constitutiion...the Supreme Law of the Law, is very defienet on this point;the new president will take office in January.
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Not looking to be defiant, but can you explain "strong case". That woukd be my point; he could argue anything as "strong" simply to delay the proceedings. Especially in a 4-4 court. Who would determine it a "nuisance" and throw it out?

I take your point on the Constitution and January. Just wondering if this could be an end run around it.
 
Tony Stark said:
It is possible that Donald Trump will increase split ticket voting this year because of how uniquely terrible he is.
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I'll bet we get a large number of abstentions at the top of the ballot. I abstained from a presidential choice back in 2004, finding about Obama and McCain flawed in ways such that I really could not support either one.

Right now pretty sure I'll abstain unless I can find it in myself to hold my nose and vote for Hillary. But I doubt it.
 
cantonear1968 said:
Not looking to be defiant, but can you explain "strong case". That woukd be my point; he could argue anything as "strong" simply to delay the proceedings. Especially in a 4-4 court. Who would determine it a "nuisance" and throw it out?

I take your point on the Constitution and January. Just wondering if this could be an end run around it.
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The courts aren't going to entertain frivolous lawsuits just because Donald is upset that Hillary beat him. They will just toss that **** out unless there is merit (there won't be).
 
cantonear1968 said:
Not looking to be defiant, but can you explain "strong case". That woukd be my point; he could argue anything as "strong" simply to delay the proceedings. Especially in a 4-4 court. Who would determine it a "nuisance" and throw it out?

I take your point on the Constitution and January. Just wondering if this could be an end run around it.
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A case with actual evidence that fraud or miscount occurred. It would be up to the judges to determine if the evidence was real or this was just a nuisaince suit...which the vast majority of Trump's lawsuits are.
You don't get that the case would have to work it's way up to the Supreme Court through the state and lower level Federal Courts. If the state court throw it out as without real merit, The Federal Courts would probably follow ,and the Supreme Court would not even hear the case.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
I'll bet we get a large number of abstentions at the top of the ballot. I abstained from a presidential choice back in 2004, finding about Obama and McCain flawed in ways such that I really could not support either one.

Right now pretty sure I'll abstain unless I can find it in myself to hold my nose and vote for Hillary. But I doubt it.
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We will also get some interesting "protest" write in votes. I think that Batman, Spiderman and Darth Vader will have good year.
 
Fast Eddie B said:
I'll bet we get a large number of abstentions at the top of the ballot. I abstained from a presidential choice back in 2004, finding about Obama and McCain flawed in ways such that I really could not support either one.

Right now pretty sure I'll abstain unless I can find it in myself to hold my nose and vote for Hillary. But I doubt it.
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Wow. You found McCain and Obama flawed 4 years before they ran :p
 
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