On Fox News right now, we have Mark Levin slamming Chief Justice John Roberts for "making some cockamamie distinction between federal courts and state courts." Levin says Trump should *make* the Supreme Court hear his (nonexistent) case.
Levin is now amplifying a view I& #39;ve heard privately from several @GOP figures: the idea that Republicans shouldn& #39;t acknowledge Biden as *anything* until after the electoral vote count is certified.
Levin says he& #39;ll ask Ken Starr about this nutty idea next.
Levin says he& #39;ll ask Ken Starr about this nutty idea next.
Earlier this week Matt Gaetz also floated this thought, with the aim of getting Trumpist House @GOP to file challenges to the electoral vote certification process in the House. It wouldn& #39;t do anything, but it& #39;s one more way they can gunk up the process.
It& #39;s worth noting that Levin isn& #39;t even the most extreme voice in the room here. One Rep I spoke to this morning said there& #39;s "no legal requirement" for the @GOP to acknowledge Biden as anything but a private citizen until he swears the oath of office on 1/20/21.
Which is to say...not great news for the idea that House and Senate @GOP will be in a spirit of bipartisanship when President-elect Biden walks into the Oval Office in January.
Ken Starr was supposed to talk about the idea of "President-elect Biden" but instead he& #39;s...talking about BLM protesters in Portland burning their Bibles?
I guess we& #39;ve given up on that segment because now we& #39;re filling time until Trump by discussing "the Democrats& #39; war on the Constitution".....with Levin citing Democratic lawsuits aimed at protecting government from Trump& #39;s authoritarian overreach.
Levin and Starr are both believers in this fringe idea (along with Lindsey Graham) that the @GOP can still win this in the Electoral College by encouraging Republican legislatures to appoint pro-Trump electors regardless of the official vote count.
It shows you how far the @GOP has come that "overrule the votes" is the next logical step in their action plan. Just have the Republican PA state legislature decide who won Pennsylvania! That& #39;s what the founders "actually wanted" anyway, right?
Oh how Constitutional Originalism can seem alive and breathing when the Republicans need to make the case for outright, open-air election theft.
It& #39;s amazing how quickly the @GOP& #39;s desperation drove it from "We& #39;re gonna win all 50 states! MAGA 2020!" to "Screw it let& #39;s just steal the damn thing."
I just tuned in to see Donald Trump whine about getting thrown out of the White House. I feel like I& #39;ve mistakenly walked into a dusty back and into the middle of a 19th Century coup plot.
I will not be live tweeting anything else until Trump is on because Mark Levin is a moron and he keeps speaking into his collarbones.
These people REALLY hate losing
Oh my god this ad on Fox is for a real product I thought it was a @timheidecker bit.