A comment from Attorney & co-host of the "Opening Arguments Podcast,"
Andrew Torrez for all Republicans:

So, here's what happened. Last night, Ken Paxton, the Republican
Attorney General of Texas, just filed a motion in the Supreme Court to
overturn the results of the 2020 election and -- IN HIS WORDS -- have
the Republican state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and
Wisconsin "appoint" Presidential electors regardless of how their states
actually voted (which was for Joe Biden).

The good news is that this motion is one of the dumbest things I've ever
read in my 23 years of practicing law. It has ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE of
persuading even the dumbest right-wing hack on the Supreme Court. It was
a waste of their time to draft, a waste of my time to read, and a waste
of good trees if anyone ever prints this thing out (which I doubt).
Here's the reason I mention it: if you're a Republican, there are really
two options open to you.

1. If you're a crazy person and you think the lizard people conspired
with the reverse vampires of the Illuminati to take George Soros's money
to steal the election for Joe Biden (but for some reason not the
Senate), I guess you can continue to live in Crazytown, USA.

2. But if you're a Republican and you're not a crazy person -- that is,
you KNOW that QAnon is nonsense and that drunken rants from subliterate
buffoons about stolen ballots actually embarrass you -- then it's time
for you to come to grips with the fact that the supposed adults in your
party are not only coddling and enabling the crazies, but that they no
longer fundamentally believe in democracy.

What Ken Paxton wants -- what Ken Paxton has solemnly said he wants the
Supreme Court to do, under penalty of perjury and Rule 11 sanctions --
is to craft nonsense relief that will overturn the democratic will of
the American people and somehow make Donald Trump president again.
We have a word for what it means to disregard democratic elections and
install a losing candidate instead. That word is "treason," and the word
for people who support treason is "traitor."

Republicans, that's your party right now: a party that appears split
between people who are truly bat****, out-of-their-****ing-minds full-on
crazy, and those who are coddling the crazies by committing, advocating,
litigating for full-on treason. And that's it. There are NO other voices
in government right now with an (R) next to their name. Just crazies and
traitors.

So: that's your party. What are you going to do about it?

(Gosh, you'd think he was addressing some of the Trumpsters here...)

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Bozo Bin resuscitated...John Herring in there, along with Bert Robbins,
452471atgmail.com, Just-AN-Asshole, Evangelical Tim, and Gunboy Alex.
Oh, if you are in the Bozo Bin, it is because you are only here to
insult or your posts lack wit or you are deadly dull, or a combination.
In Just-AN-Asshole's case, it is all three.

Keyser Söze wrote:

A comment from Attorney & co-host of the "Opening Arguments Podcast,"
Andrew Torrez for all Republicans:

So, here's what happened. Last night, Ken Paxton, the Republican
Attorney General of Texas, just filed a motion in the Supreme Court to
overturn the results of the 2020 election and -- IN HIS WORDS -- have
the Republican state legislatures of Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and
Wisconsin "appoint" Presidential electors regardless of how their states
actually voted (which was for Joe Biden).

The good news is that this motion is one of the dumbest things I've ever
read in my 23 years of practicing law. It has ABSOLUTELY NO CHANCE of
persuading even the dumbest right-wing hack on the Supreme Court. It was
a waste of their time to draft, a waste of my time to read, and a waste
of good trees if anyone ever prints this thing out (which I doubt).
Here's the reason I mention it: if you're a Republican, there are really
two options open to you.

1. If you're a crazy person and you think the lizard people conspired
with the reverse vampires of the Illuminati to take George Soros's money
to steal the election for Joe Biden (but for some reason not the
Senate), I guess you can continue to live in Crazytown, USA.

2. But if you're a Republican and you're not a crazy person -- that is,
you KNOW that QAnon is nonsense and that drunken rants from subliterate
buffoons about stolen ballots actually embarrass you -- then it's time
for you to come to grips with the fact that the supposed adults in your
party are not only coddling and enabling the crazies, but that they no
longer fundamentally believe in democracy.

What Ken Paxton wants -- what Ken Paxton has solemnly said he wants the
Supreme Court to do, under penalty of perjury and Rule 11 sanctions --
is to craft nonsense relief that will overturn the democratic will of
the American people and somehow make Donald Trump president again.
We have a word for what it means to disregard democratic elections and
install a losing candidate instead. That word is "treason," and the word
for people who support treason is "traitor."

Republicans, that's your party right now: a party that appears split
between people who are truly bat****, out-of-their-****ing-minds full-on
crazy, and those who are coddling the crazies by committing, advocating,
litigating for full-on treason. And that's it. There are NO other voices
in government right now with an (R) next to their name. Just crazies and
traitors.

So: that's your party. What are you going to do about it?

(Gosh, you'd think he was addressing some of the Trumpsters here...)


Actually, hat is the way Electors were appointed for years and years. The
states, appoint the Electors, not the public. How they choose those
electors was up to the states. Pennsylvania did break it’s own laws.
Changing the rules mid election, by fiat, not according to THEIR laws.
Same thing the Supreme Court told Florida during the Gore/Bush debacle.