• bassomitron@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      What? I think you underestimate how blocking the certification process would have turned the entire US government and state legislatures against Trump and Pence. The courts would NOT have ruled in their favor, even with hard right courts. They’d most likely just defer the issue to Congress, where they’d then have to contend with both the House and the Senate, the majority of which was NOT on board with Trump’s half-brained coup attempt.

      https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3520160-pences-lawyer-told-him-blocking-vote-certification-would-likely-lead-to-court-loss-standoff-with-congress/

      Even Pence’s lawyer consulted him that they would almost certainly lose if he opted to block it.

      And back to the original context of this whole comment chain, even the US military’s top brass at the time all said they would NOT back Trump’s claims and would absolutely not support his coup. https://thehill.com/policy/defense/563117-top-generals-feared-trump-would-attempt-coup-after-election-and-had-informal/

      I don’t see the vast majority of the top brass ever changing on that stance. There might be some extremist generals that would, but they’d be in the minority and certainly wouldn’t go far and would quickly be relieved of duty.

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        11 months ago

        Jan. 6 was a test run and went further than they expected. The real thing is probably coming and it’s going to be bad. There’s a chance of saving this country, but it requires a contingent of people realizing they’re wrong and those people aren’t you or I.

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      11 months ago

      At the time it felt like that, but this SCOTUS thankfully seems unwilling to entertain his election BS.

      Remember, SCOTUS is powerful because the US is a stable constitutional democracy. In fascist coups the judiciary is typically first put against the wall. All justices not named Clarence Thomas are smart enough to understand this.