Trump: "You Think About THIS The Next Time You Shoot Your Mouth Off In Some Bar."

[Laelth]

1. The intentionally "partial" recount in WI is reason for concern.

Florida law in 2000 gave Gore the option to select which counties he wanted recounted. The SCOTUS struck down the Florida Supreme Court’s ruling (allowing the properly-requested recounts to proceed) on 14th Amendment equal protection grounds—if you’re going to recount, you have to recount the whole state in order to satisfy equal protection. I worry that this two-county recount will run afoul of the 14th Amendment and get this case before the SCOTUS.

I make no prediction about what the SCOTUS might do with it, and WI doesn’t (alone) have enough electoral votes to change the outcome of the recent election, but selective county recounts have been deemed unconstitutional once, and that’s reason for concern, despite the fact that the SCOTUS declared that Bush v. Gore had no precedential standing.

-Laelth