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GOP threatened to sue over November ballot if Biden dropped out. Experts call that 'ridiculous'

apnews.com GOP threatened to sue over November ballot if Biden dropped out. Experts call that 'ridiculous'

Even before President Joe Biden’s 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.

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.

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They absolutely have no legal basis, my only worry is that they have activists in SCOTUS which showed us multiple times that they don't care what the Constitution says.
GOP: but it was our only strategy!
They already made it public that they will do everything to invalidate democrat votes and that they won't accept any outcome that isn't a Trump win.

It's going to be Jan 2021 but worse again.
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.
You know as they say: if it looks ridiculous and sounds ridiculous, it's most likely the GOP.
The Supreme Court call that "compelling"
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.
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.
it's hilarious that they're proving in real time just how pants-shittingly scared of harris they are.

"keep the old man in!!! we don't want to go up against a younger woman whom we can't publicly criticize for not being white!"
Supreme Court will show those experts who’s daddy
Ridiculous pretty much sums up the GOP
SCOTUS - Something, something, this is illegal however only when Democrats do it.
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Maybe we can get a class action together for their lies and misinformation?
They should have been running on a platform instead of grievance politics. Then it wouldn't matter who they were running against.
Maybe don't have a platform where the only thing you do is shit on the other person and call them kindergarten level nicknames? What a bunch of snowflakes.
You're welcome to try but I don't see how they have any standing to sue.
More idiocy from the idiot party.
Let them waste even more money.
Sadly, the Supreme Court has been ruling a lot of ridiculous things lately.
Shows how terrible they are at their jobs.
This may well work for the repubs, though.

They want dictatorship, not representative-republic ( falsely-called "democracy" by us foolish peons ).

Legalism, which the christ they pretend to be aligned-with, repeatedly railed against, calling its devotees "Hypocrites!"..

https://www.biblegateway.com/quicksearch/?quicksearch=hypocrite&version=AMP

I believe that in the gaslighting-about-being-aligned-with-christ republican territories .. they're going to get that result to happen..

Which only could have been prevented had the dems put Harris in the race months ago..

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They don’t have to succeed. They simply have to stall.
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.
In 13 states the deadline for petitions for specific independent candidates has already passed. But, in at least 20 states the rules clearly allow Democrats and Republicans to do whatever, whenever.

If RCV magically appeared then the Green Party would be winning this one with AOC. Most aren't as stupid as we think. They only lack practical alternatives. I believe harm reduction would be a second choice for so, so many.

But, RCV isn't going to magically appear; Even if a politician wanted to, none can save us from the system; And, harm reduction simply isn't good enough anymore. The only way we progress is by doing much, much more than voting.

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