The editors of the Wall Street Journal note President Trump has exhausted his legal recourses:
Mr. Trump’s last legal gasp came Friday evening when the Supreme Court declined to hear the Texas lawsuit seeking to overturn the election results in Georgia, Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania. As we predicted, the Court cited Texas’s lack of legal standing to challenge how another state manages its elections.
They scold the Republicans:
Some on the right claim that Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented, but this is wrong. The Justices said they would have taken the Texas case as a “bill of complaint†when states sue other states.
This is a technical point that concerns the Court’s case management, and the two Justices have a long-time view that the Court should hear more of these direct state appeals. We happen to agree, but in this case the Texas claim was outside constitutional bounds. Justice Alito (joined by Justice Thomas) added that he would “not grant other relief.†This was not a dissent on the merits of the Texas claim.
Mr. Trump and his camp are attacking the Court, and the President is deriding the “standing†point as a dodge. It is much more than that. Limits on standing are fundamental to a conservative understanding of the proper judicial role under Article III of the Constitution. If anyone can sue without a cognizable injury and the possibility of remedy, the courts would be overwhelmed with frivolous claims.
and advise the president that it’s time to concede:
There’s a time to fight, and a time to concede. Mr. Trump has had his innumerable days in court and lost. He would do far better now to tout his accomplishments in office, which are many, and accept his not so horrible fate as one of 45 former American Presidents.
I’m sure that many will challenge the notion that Trump had major accomplishments as president. Where you stand depends on where you sit. But it is time to concede.
The Supreme Court has already put the lie to the claim that they are pure partisans, not ruling on what the law says but on their personal preferences. A concession speech and graceful exit from the White House would put the lie to other claims that have been made about the Trump presidency.
Yes, its time to concede. But anyone who cannot acknowledge the orchestrated and massive fraud simply isn’t trying.
As an interesting side note, “trust the science” has become a convenient admonition when applied to, say, covid. But in the case of patently absurd statistical results, the science of probability and statistics along with common sense data analysis, science gets hardly a mention. Imagine that.
So the question is what to do. A shrug of the shoulders is an irresponsible position for so fundamental but corrupted process as a national election. This process need the light of day shown upon it. A special prosecutor is warranted.
Sadly, the nature of Internet-enhanced partisanship is that any and all claims to which said “lie” has been put will continue to persist.
One could also note that the Internet age means that every possible claim has already been debunked, and it just doesn’t matter. Until it suddenly does, which might just be too late.
I still believe that successful extra-rational social/persuasive tactics can and do arise from considering that very universality and its implications, but so far I have been completely unable to put them into readable words.
Ah, well.
As Jonathan Swift wrote more than 300 years ago, falsehood flies and the truth comes limping after. Social media have just increased the breadth and speed of the flight.
Have to wonder why the Trump legal team keeps forgetting to cite all of the evidence that supposedly exists to prove there is fraud. Why when asked they claim the cases are not about fraud. He only hires the best people so these hav got to be good lawyers. Of course his number one hired lawyer, Barr, said there was no widespread fraud.
“the science of probability and statistics along with common sense data analysis, science gets hardly a mention. ”
Amazing how many people dont really understand statistics and what they tell us and dont tell us.
Steve