Metus est plenus tyrannis.
The crown of the king is far heavier than those who covet it often realize.
The State Constitutions outline how their selections of the President are to be performed and at the very foundation of law is the prohibition of fraud. Anything enacted under fraud is void by default.
Then there is also the very real issue that all law is powerless before force. An angry, armed public is more than capable of determining when the conventions of its government are to be overridden and replaced - regardless of the ruling by judges or the appeals to procedure.
Granted, it should be the goal of every state seeking to endure its inevitable descent into nepotism and corruption to give the public tools to reform the government without such need… But the more things change, the more they stay the same in many regards.
The States can nullify the existence of the federal government if they so choose.
It would be very unlikely - don't misunderstand.
However, there would be a case if investigations found or discovered fraud or state courts ended up ruling, through various cases still in process, that their votes had been made to the electoral college unconstitutionally.
This would then create a question at scotus regarding what actions would be appropriate in this event.
Given the ruling that Oklahoma is pretty much all indian reservation territory just last year - one must wonder how quickly scotus will flip on their decision that the letter of the law must be followed no matter how inconvenient it may be.
IE - a fraudulent or unconstitutional election is null and void regardless of the fact it would create uncertainty.
I actually agreed with that scotus ruling at that time for this very reason.
Now… Is that what will happen?
Possibly.
For the moment, it is going to be amusing watching the democrats try to kill off Biden to put kamala in the presidency.
This is why we should have never allowed the vice president to be anyone other than the presidential runner-up.
Mueller will likely come full circle before much longer. There are interesting reports popping up about Hillary stirring up trouble long before steele and others.
My original thesis was that hillary planned to 'lose' to trump with 'russian hackers' giving him the election to allow us who supported him to be portrayed as part of a russian coup attempt, destroy all political opposition under that justification, and plant us into a war against russia to limit our effectiveness against china (if not open us up to attacks by them using backdoors into our equipment - see cases of mysteriously colliding ships).
That is probably the creepiest thing I have seen, today. Holy shit.