Trump Campaign and GOP Allies in Full Legal Panic as Recounts Could Create Electoral College Crisis

[EricMaundry]

Source: Alternet.org

Republicans are panicking because the Green Party’s presidential recounts in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania could prevent Donald Trump from receiving 270 Electoral College votes on December 19, the final hurdle to the presidency.

In the past 24 hours, the Trump campaign and GOP allies in the three states that gave him an apparent Electoral College victory after Election Night have filed similar lawsuits and legal motions to block, delay and freeze the recounts. In Michigan’s case, where Trump’s lead is smallest, 10,704 votes, the state’s Republican attorney general is arguing the recount's results should be ignored.

“If a recount cannot be accomplished by the ‘safe harbor’ date [a week before the Electoral College meets], or if it is started but not finished by that date, then the State Defendants must, on or before December 13, 2016, certify to the federal government the initial elector results announced on November 28, 2016,” Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette, a Republican, said in his lawsuit filed against the Michigan's board overseeing the recount and its state election director.

The Trump campaign filed a similar complaint Thursday against the state’s Board of State Canvassers, saying Stein has no basis for the recount because she has no grievance and no chance of winning—ignoring that presidential candidates, even in minor parties, have standing under state and federal law.

Read more: http://www.alternet.org/election-2016/trump-campaign-and-gop-allies-full-legal-panic-recounts-could-create-electoral-college

[rzemanfl]

2. But

13 + 7=17 when it suits them. The assholes.

[mountain grammy]

3. They fucking cheated and they know it.

[bdamomma]

6. for sure that is why he is in panic mode.

He stole the election. He kept on saying it was "rigged" for himself this fcuking guy speaks in code.

[pangaia]

26. Trumpo let the cat out of the bag the same way Shrub did when he said,

"My job is to spread the propaganda." (paraphrased)

[YOHABLO]

11. You know using the word 'cheated' is an understatement. They're criminal.

[Botany]

12. "It was rigged." D. Trump

1) An unconscious self-defence mechanism characterised by a person unconsciously attributing their own issues onto someone or something else as a form of delusion and denial.

2) A way to blame others for your own negative thoughts by repressing them and then attributing them to someone else. Due to the sorrowful nature of delusion and denial it is very difficult for the target to be able to clarify the reality of the situation.

3) A way to transfer guilt for your own thoughts, emotions and actions onto another as a way of not admitting your guilt to yourself.

from urban dictionary

[Achilleaze]

27. + 1,000

As as Republicans always do, they want to dodge responsibility for their cheating -- and so create obfuscation by PROJECTING their corrupt shadow onto others.

[pbmus]

4. Banana republic

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. I picture Trump yelling "Halt!" while holding up his tiny little hands.

[roamer65]

7. I hope they get tied up in court.

[C Moon]

8. They were not ready for a recount, that's for sure.

[lonestarnot]

14. The cannot hide what they did. Toooooooooo stupid. He in full on panic.

[C Moon]

18. I sure hope so! And it sure appears, as such.

[ffr]

9. Their motive, stall! U.S. Treasury at stake and they want to raid it.

Just like in 2000 when republicans received no less than a 4.5 trillion dollar budget surplus forecast, then proceeded to turn that surplus and national debt payoff into a 12 trillion dollar debt and blamed it on democrats, when republicans were in the Whitehouse. It's fcuking nuts!

[Coyotl]

13. USA at stake and that is what they want to raid. Oil, gas, minerals, forests, you name it ...

They are ready to all become billionaires off this just like the Russians oligarchs did. They'll break up the USA to dio it too, don't blink for a second.

[sarcasmo]

15. Raid and sell/privatize everything they can in four years.

[C Moon]

19. Man. Thats fucking scary.

[Coyotl]

24. Think about it, what they are doing could break up the country and make them super rich.

They really seem to be trying very hard to destroy the United States, creating a civil war anew.

[RKP5637]

28. Exactly what their game plan is. FFS, why are so MANY Americans always so fucken stupid!!! n/t

[truthisfreedom]

10. Funny! Hey trump, know what that weird sensation is? Flop sweat.

You loser.

[turbinetree]

16. Hey Shutte for brains if you aren't so worried about the recount, then what's the problem?

You do realize that the citizens of the state and citizens of this big old country have "RIGHT TO KNOW" what the final tallies are in the votes cast, and we do have aright to ask if a state actor ( Russia) and other items like padding votes, or just not counting votes in districts and counties have met the rule of "law" , so when a lawsuit if s filed there has to be a reason to meet that threshold, and Dr. Jill Stein was after all a candidate on a state and federal ballot to be the president.
Did you not know this when you went to law school, if not I would ask for your money back because they didn't teach you very well, or you were asleep in class, or you skipped that day

[Judi Lynn]

20. Schuette just does what the criminally insane people tell him. He sold his soul a long time ago.

[center]

Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette

[turbinetree]

21. What's really despicable is that he is not his own man

he is also a fraud, and has the moral equivalency of nothing, a yes man to corruption.

I just wonder how these people sleep at night having no conscience for there actions. If you or I were to do this or something else he would make an example of us-----------------he should be impeached right along with the governor.

And then in the public purview of hypocrisy they have Rick Snyder going around and saying one thing and having his AG do another, is amazing

[RobinA]

17. This Has

a familiar ring to it. Let's see what the Supreme Court has to say.

[lark]

22. They are afraid they will get caught in their known and planned treachery.

They know they could lose and are fearful. They aren't certain or drumpf would be inciting a civil war Wonder if they will riot at the vote counting locations and threaten the officials, like GW paid folks to do in Miami in 2000? I was there and saw it, despite all the lying denials, it totally happened.

[DBoon]

23. I don't think they are afraid they will lose

I think they are afraid the recount will expose all of their dirty tricks for the world to see.

[Sunlei]

25. Republicans constantly said, "rigged vote, dead people & undocumented votes" So lets find one!

Hillary is well on the way for a 3 million vote popular win.

[judesedit]

29. They know all their corrupt bs may be exposed and the true winner will be announced-Hillary Clinton

[judesedit]

30. Why are they panicking?Unless they rigged the votes 4 that bigoted, lying, hypocritical crook Drumpf

[JudyM]

31. Would love to see Clinton ahead by 10 votes on 12/13 and tRump's team screaming to continue

the recount because it's too close to call.

[ET Awful]

32. So they want to cite Bush v Gore in their case, but they forget that part of the decision

in that case stated specifically that the decision in that case was not to be used for future cases:

"Our consideration is limited to the present circumstances, for the problem of equal protection in election processes generally presents many complexities."

Basically the Bush v. Gore decision specifically excluded the ability to cite that case as precedent in anther case.