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There’s a danger that the US supreme court, not voters, picks the next president | David Daley

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Julian Zelizer : If you think a repeat of Bush v Gore can’t happen this year , think again.

He says there are dozens of scenarios where Trump ’s endgame pushes a contested election into the courts, but ensures that it ends up before the US supreme court.

Zelizer says lower courts may brush aside this mayhem, but if the election comes down to just one or two states with a photo finish, the court feels very much in play.

If preclearance remained intact, these changes and voter ID schemes, voter purges in Texas , Virginia and elsewhere that confuse non-citizens and intimidate some from voting, would have been rejected by the Biden justice department.

Many actions underway at this very moment, with the very real risk of sabotaging the count, slowing the process and kicking everything into the courts, are Shelby ’s demon chaos agents, bred for precisely this purpose.

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