NYT: Trump wanted to oust Acting AG and force Georgia to overturn results

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51. The judicial branch held because there was no serious attempt to use it

to stage the coup.

Rudy and Powell's dog and pony show was just that: a clown act for the cameras, not the courts. The running joke was that they were making their accusations everywhere except in the actual court filings. The lawsuits were amateurish and empty and gave judges -- even friendly judges -- nothing to hang their hats on.

The Texas AG lawsuit was really the only serious attempt to overrturn the election in the courts, and it also was little more than an empty PR gesture.

All of that would have been different if Trump had had competent, professional lawyers in the DOJ using the Department's full resources to pursue serious litigation to overrturn the results. They would have constructed enough specious arguments, and filed enough lawsuits, that eventually they would have crossed paths with a Trumper judge who felt comfortable going along with them. (Otherwise known as the Obamacare Strategy.) And then our democracy really would have come down to Boofer Kavanaugh and Amy Barrett Handmaid.

And while those two idiots were deciding whether they wanted to be remembered by history as the guys who appointed Hitler chancellor a second time, the DOJ would have already leaned on swing states and given the GOP legislatures there enough cover to throw out the results.