Elie Mystal: That "Little Secret" Between Trump and Johnson? Here's What It Could Mean.

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7. Here's a one pager summary for your convenience

https://protectdemocracy.org/work/understanding-the-electoral-count-reform-act-of-2022/

The ECRA stipulates all challenges must be adjudicated by the safe Harbor date.

If SCOTUS does what Mystal suggests, the country will be in flames before Christmas, and the markets will collapse.

Either that, or the governors will move ahead with signing the certificates of Ascertainment according to the timeline established by law, despite any ruling from the court (who and what army will stop them), at which point SCOTUS will see their authority evaporate. They will have no further role in the process once the certificates are transmitted, as it then becomes an internal congressional process.

We shall see if the MAGA majority on the court wish to engage in a game of brinkmanship, or if they will follow the law.

Aside from Clarence, this court has no personal loyalty to Trump, so I think it’s more likely they will follow the law as written, which follows the constitution and other existing law.