Even before President Joe Biden’s long-speculated withdrawal from the 2024 presidential race, allies of former President Donald Trump floated the possibility of suing to block Democrats from having anyone other than Biden on the ballot in November.
But election administration and legal experts said the timing of Biden’s exit on Sunday makes it unlikely that any Republican ballot access challenges will succeed, with some calling the idea “ridiculous” and “frivolous.” Democrats are on safe legal ground as they identify a new standard-bearer, they say, because the party hasn’t officially chosen its nominee. That typically occurs with a vote of delegates at the party’s convention.
“It’s ridiculous for people to talk about ‘replacing Biden.’ He hasn’t been nominated yet,” said Richard Winger, a leading expert on state ballot access laws and the longtime editor of the “Ballot Access News” newsletter.
Supreme Court will show those experts who’s daddy
Given the current SCOTUS, it won’t be the Republicans, unfortunately.
Shows how terrible they are at their jobs.
You know as they say: if it looks ridiculous and sounds ridiculous, it’s most likely the GOP.
If it walks like a moron, talks like a moron…
…yep, it’s the GOP.
GOP: but it was our only strategy!
Threatening to sue over spurious, trumped up claims has been a Trump strategy for half a century now.
They should have been running on a platform instead of grievance politics. Then it wouldn’t matter who they were running against.
SCOTUS - Something, something, this is illegal however only when Democrats do it.
It’s stupid enough that Ohio demands that the nominee be on the ballot before the convention and even they give a deadline after August.
They don’t have to succeed. They simply have to stall.
The Supreme Court call that “compelling”
That’s a “Major Question” if nothing else.
Right? I used to think it would be ridiculous for a former president to foment a violent insurrection of their own government and not be held accountable for their words and actions.
Just like all of Trump’s election fraud cases (over 60 of them), this will be immediately thrown out as superfluous and/or for inability to provide any evidence.
Dems haven’t even held the convention to nominate yet, so GOP can keep cryin’ until November.
I’m just waiting for SCOTUS to declare a winner again. I doubt that will go over as smoothly as it did in 2000.
That didn’t go over very smoothly. Bush II was extremely unpopular until 9/11 bailed him out.
There’s unpopular and there’s congress refusing to listen to SCOTUS while competing protestors face off in D.C.
Hopefully it’s nowhere near close enough for that, but we shall see soon enough.
Ridiculous pretty much sums up the GOP
Let them waste even more money.
Maybe we can get a class action together for their lies and misinformation?
implying any court will do enough to send a major political party to it’s right place at the dumpster of history
Given where we are now, it seems obvious that you would let the delegates pick the candidate, but it’s sort of strange that The People don’t actually get any say in who the candidate is. Kamala will get the nomination from the ruling class alone. It’s an option that could be used to circumvent the democratic process. Something to keep an eye on.
Absolutely no doubt the Republicans will use this to their advantage at some point.
I think her hundred million pretty new dollars (so far) are a pretty clear indication that the people are behind her.
Given the bizzaro timeline we’re in it would not surprise me to get a crazy outcome:
- GOP lawsuit wins, forcing the ballot to be Biden
- Biden wins the general election, immediately resigns and…
- Harris is the President.
What would be really hilarious is, I think that would allow her to serve two more 4 year terms after her 2025-2029 term ends because she would not have run as President the first time.
What would be really hilarious is, I think that would allow her to serve two more 4 year terms after her 2025-2029 term ends because she would not have run as President the first time.
That’s incorrect. The 22nd amendment states: “no person who has held the office of President, or acted as President, for more than two years of a term to which some other person was elected President shall be elected to the office of the President more than once”. So unless Biden would wait for at least two years before stepping down, Harris could only be elected for one more term.
Thanks for this. I was going to correct them, but didn’t really wanna type out and reference why they were wrong. You are a champion.
That would also let the GOP pick the VP unless they lose control of the House. Not an ideal situation.
