The Texas case was not a close call. At all.
Just an effort to overturn a democratic election dressed up in shabby legal clothing.
Republicans who supported it compromised their beliefs, ideology, and oaths.
They stand for nothing. Care about nothing.
Except themselves.
10:12 PM · Dec 11, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/RepAdamSchiff/status/1337596074844798977
The Case for Trump to Invoke Insurrection Act to Restore Election Integrity
The Insurrection Act of 1807
https://twitter.com/DeepStateExpose/status/1337602213406003201
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_app/case-for-president-trumps-invoking-insurrection-act-to-restore-election-integrity_3610513.html/
During the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, the 10th Congress enacted the Insurrection Act of 1807.
Jefferson signed the measure into law to foil the plot of Revolutionary War hero Aaron Burr—following the destruction of his political career after he shot and killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel—to raise an army toward establishing his own dynasty in what was then the Louisiana Territory.
The Insurrection Act empowers the president of the United States to deploy U.S. military and federalized National Guard troops to suppress civil disorder, insurrection, and rebellion. Section 252 of the Act states:
“Whenever the President considers that unlawful obstructions, combinations, or assemblages, or rebellion against the authority of the United States, make it impracticable to enforce the laws of the United States in any State by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, he may call into Federal service such of the militia of any State, and use such of the armed forces, as he considers necessary to enforce those laws or to suppress the rebellion.”
Generally, the U.S. military remains free of civil conflicts on U.S. soil, as no one wants U.S. armed forces using physical force against U.S. civilians. Indeed, when President Donald Trump threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and send the National Guard in response to the George Floyd riots, including, for example, to address Seattle’s failure to restore law and order over the so-called “autonomous zone,” then-Defense Secretary Mark Esper openly stated his disagreement with the president.
Ultimately, the president didn’t then invoke the Insurrection Act. But considering the possibility of the Act’s invocation now, to address “unlawful obstructions” to an attempt to verify ballots, and an “insurrection” surrounding the 2020 election generally, two powerful distinctions must at the outset be noted: (1) Esper is no longer defense secretary, as Trump has replaced him with Christopher Miller, the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, and (2) troops could be deployed to take control over ballots and voting machines in swing states, rather than suppressing and dispersing rioting civilians.
The president’s invocation of the Insurrection Act isn’t a declaration of martial law. The Constitution isn’t suspended. The writ of habeas corpus isn’t suspended. The president would be using troops to enforce the law, not override it.
To understand the case for Trump’s potential invocation of the Insurrection Act, we must consider more broadly the 2020 election and surrounding historical circumstances.
In law, fraud is often proved by what are known as “badges of fraud”—telltale signs that a fraud has taken place—short of positive proof of the actual fraud, because fraudsters have a tendency to cover their tracks.
Case in point: Harry Markopolos. At least seven years before the lid was blown off the $65 billion Ponzi scheme run by Bernie Madoff, Harry Markopolos, a money fund manager, blew the whistle on Madoff’s decades-long Ponzi scheme. Markopolos’s “proof” was a single compelling badge of fraud: In his words, Madoff’s “impossibly smooth” returns over decades.
Markopolos, who made investments for a living, knew no one could have such a consistent record, with no downturns, no volatility, and for so many years on end. Markopolos published a book titled “No One Would Listen,” remarking, after Madoff’s enormous scheme was exposed, “the math was so compelling.”
Consider now—away from the mountains of direct evidence of voter fraud—the “math” involved in the 2020 election:
Shortly after midnight (Eastern time), Trump was leading in all six of the swing states still at issue: Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Arizona, and Nevada, and had racked up, apart from those six states, 232 electoral votes to Biden’s 227.
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During the early morning hours of Nov. 4, not one or two, but all six states flipped for Biden.
The early-morning Nov. 4 “blue-shift” took place only in the six swing states, through a series of “spikes,” almost entirely consisting of mailed ballots (made possible due to radical changes in voting laws amid the CCP virus pandemic) in which Biden received the vast majority of the votes. According to an analysis published through Substack, these spikes include:
“An update in Michigan listed as 6:31 a.m. Eastern time on Nov. 4, 2020, which shows 141,258 votes for Joe Biden and 5,968 votes for Donald Trump”
“An update in Wisconsin listed as 3:42 a.m. Central time on Nov. 4, 2020, which shows “143,379 votes for Joe Biden and 25,163 votes for Donald Trump”
“A vote update in Georgia listed at 1:34 a.m. Eastern time on Nov. 4, 2020, which shows 136,155 votes for Joe Biden and 29,115 votes for Donald Trump”
“An update in Michigan listed as of 3:50 a.m. Eastern time on Nov. 4, 2020, which shows 54,497 votes for Joe Biden and 4,718 votes for Donald Trump”
Those four spikes yielded 426,241 Biden votes but only 64,964 Trump votes.
Somehow Biden did very poorly in all parts of the country except, only and exactly, where it mattered. Out of the 3,000 counties in the United States, 19 so-called “bellwether” counties have had a perfect record, since 1980, of voting for the winner. Trump won 18 of these 19 counties. For example, Vigo County, Indiana, and Valencia County, New Mexico, each has a perfect record of picking the winning candidate since the 1948 election famously gotten wrong by the Chicago Tribune, which ran a cover declaring “Dewey Defeats Truman.” Barack Obama won these two bellwether counties in 2008, yet Trump handily defeated Biden in both and 16 other bellwethers.
In 2008, Obama garnered 69,498,516 votes, the most ever until Biden topped his record with more than 80 million votes in 2020, yet, Trump this year won the highest share of nonwhite voters of any Republican since 1960: Roughly one-quarter of nonwhite voters cast their ballots for Trump, according to an Edison exit poll.
Trump improved his 2016 performance (just shy of 63 million votes) by 20 percent in 2020 (more than 74 million votes). No incumbent president in U.S. history has ever improved his original performance that much and lost. For example, Obama garnered 3.5 million fewer votes in 2012, yet won a second term.
In sum: Six swing states were won by Trump on Election Day, and all six shifted to Biden by virtue of early-morning Nov. 4 spikes in mailed-in ballots that overwhelmingly favored Biden; but somehow Biden didn’t win elsewhere in the country; Trump won nearly all (18 of 19) of the historically accurate bellwether counties; Biden, campaigning from his basement, after obvious signs of cognitive decline and the hugely damaging Hunter Biden scandal breaking, running with a vice presidential candidate who had to drop out of the Democratic nomination race while polling at 5 percent, somehow topped Obama, the first black U.S. president, by more than 10 million votes, even as Trump won more of the nonwhite vote than any Republican candidate in the past 60 years.
Aside from these compelling badges of fraud, mountains of direct evidence of widespread voter fraud have been uncovered:
Radical change to universal mail-in ballots—a weaponization of the CCP virus pandemic.
Dramatic ease of mail-in restrictions.
A dramatic drop in mailed ballot rejection rates.
Sworn affidavit of “perfect black bubbles” filled in on mailed ballots.
Sworn affidavits of ballots counted multiple times.
Refusal of election authorities to perform simple signature checks on mailed ballots.
Sworn affidavits of mailed ballots having been backdated.
Sworn affidavits of “pristine ballots.”
Sworn testimony of a Pennsylvania trucker concerning massive numbers of ballots shipped to Pennsylvania from Bethpage, New York.
Ballots from out-of-state voters.
Ballots from voters listing fraudulent addresses.
Poll watchers denied access in violation of the law.
Video evidence of cases of hidden ballots.
Dominion Software
On top of the badges of fraud, compelling math, and actual proof of voter fraud, powerful evidence has emerged that the Dominion vote-counting software, in use in 28 states, has been compromised:
Sworn testimony that Dominion is linked to Smartmatic, which was allegedly developed at the request of Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez to ensure his election victories.
Evidence that in many cases, the Dominion machines were connected to the internet and thus made vulnerable to hacking, including by foreign actors.
Evidence that Dominion machines were not “hardened” (secured against hacking).
Evidence that Dominion components were made in China.
Election Officials Are Partisan Political Hacks
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Now is the time to release the declassified Russiagate files for the American people to finally get the truth!
10:53 PM · Dec 11, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
https://twitter.com/GeorgePapa19/status/1337606515146989569
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JUST IN: Biden team says it's "no surprise" Supreme Court rejected Texas lawsuit
Biden team says it's 'no surprise' Supreme Court rejected Texas lawsuit
Joe Biden’s campaign said it’s “no surprise” that the Supreme Court shot down a lawsuit filed by Texas and 17 other states to overturn the election results in four swing states that went for the president-elect.
“The Supreme Court has decisively and speedily rejected the latest of Donald Trump and his allies’ attacks on the democratic process. This is no surprise — dozens of judges, election officials from both parties, and Trump's own attorney general have dismissed his baseless attempts to deny that he lost the election,” said campaign spokesperson Michael Gwin.
“President-elect Biden's clear and commanding victory will be ratified by the Electoral College on Monday, and he will be sworn in on Jan. 20," Gwin added.
The victory lap comes after the Supreme Court shot down the lawsuit from Texas, 17 other states and 126 GOP members of the House that sought to reverse the election results from Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, four battlegrounds that went for Biden.
The ruling from the high court, which was signed by Trump appointees Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett, found that Texas did not have the legal right to litigate over how other states conduct their elections.
“Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections,” the ruling states. “All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.”
President Trump and his Republican allies have waged a litany of lawsuits claiming that widespread voter fraud and irregularities cost the president the election, though virtually all have been dismissed over lack of evidence or standing.
The Electoral College will meet on Monday to certify the election results and affirm Biden’s victory.
https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/529932-biden-team-says-its-no-surprise-supreme-court-rejected-texas-lawsuit