Now turn to North Carolina. A similar situation: The state election board extended the mail ballot deadline, with approval from state courts. Three justices tried to block that move and force the state to disqualify late-arriving *legal ballots.*https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/10/north-carolina-pennsylvania-neil-gorsuch-supreme-court-ballots.html?via=recirc_recent …
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Moreover, liberal court-watchers aren't laughing at the frivolity of Trump's post-election lawsuits—not because we think they'll prevail, but because they signal serious trouble ahead for our democracy.https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/12/trump-doomed-supreme-court-filing-civil-war.html …
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In short: There was a plausible scenario in which SCOTUS could have thrown the election to Trump. After Nov. 3, it became clear that this scenario would not occur—in part because state officials urged everybody to mail in their ballots early. Since then, Trump has been doomed.
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Progressive court-watchers have consistently said that Trump's post-election litigation would fail. Its failure does not prove that we were wrong, before Nov. 3, to worry about SCOTUS handing the election to Trump by nullifying late-arriving ballots. The end! Thanks for reading.
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That's what Trump's upset about...he thought he had it all covered.
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Lol, exactly
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Clearly, being able to throw out late arriving but mailed on time ballots was the plan behind DeJoy's post office disruption. We were saved by patriotic post office workers across the nation.
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We didn't just get lucky. It's precisely *because* there was so much concern before the election about the potential for the scenarios you lay out here, and because experts like you made sure to warn about them, that we all made sure to get our ballots in early enough to avoid it
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Or rather, enough of us voted on time.
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Meanwhile, the Postmaster General is doing everything possible to create as many late-arriving ballots as possible.
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