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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRudy wrecked it. Details on the Four Seasons & the disaster Rudy made of the already mess.
Giuliani wrecks Trump campaign's well-laid legal plans
Senior campaign aides scurried to urge organizers to kill the event, infamously staged at the wrong Four Seasons a landscaping business adjacent to an adult bookstore and a crematorium. But Giuliani plowed ahead anyway, delivering a conspiracy-filled rant that undercut the legal strategy the presidents advisers had meticulously mapped out in the run-up to the election.
Campaign officials described the episode as disastrous, saying it scared off many of the lawyers they spent months recruiting, who now no longer wanted to be involved. With the campaign already facing exceedingly long odds in its recount efforts, there are widespread concerns within Trumpworld and GOP circles that Giulianis antics are thwarting the presidents legal machinery from within.
Things came to a head during a meeting at the White House last Friday, one day before the Four Seasons Total Landscaping imbroglio. As the group batted around options before the president, Giuliani interjected and derided them as insufficiently aggressive. Some in the room were taken aback.
Republican officials said they viewed Trump's decision to promote Giuliani as an implicit acknowledgment that his legal options are closing and a sign that he's determined to go out guns blazing. Top Republicans described a feeling of resignation late Friday that the election was coming to a close.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/14/giuliani-trump-legal-plans-436475
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(35,454 posts)1.THe SC ruled in July against faithless electors voting
2. At noon on the 20th trump and pence is out and if no new president is installed Nancy P. takes over
WASHINGTON
Anxious to avoid chaos in the electoral college just months before the November vote, the Supreme Court ruled Monday that electors who formally select the president can be required by the state they represent to cast their ballot for the candidate who won their states popular vote.
The justices unanimously rejected the claim that electors have a right under the Constitution to defy their states and vote for the candidate of their choice.
Electors are not free agents, Justice Elena Kagan said for the court in Chiafalo vs. Washington. They are to vote for the candidate whom the states voters have chosen. Article II of the Constitution and the 12th Amendment give states broad power over electors, and give electors themselves no rights, she said.
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https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2020-07-06/supreme-court-electoral-college-states-voters
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/fixgov/2020/07/14/supreme-courts-faithless-electors-decision-validates-case-for-the-national-popular-vote-interstate-compact/