There is an article stickied that VA ruled election practices illegal. I know there are audits still going on in AZ, MI, and maybe some other states. I believe I read that are somewhere around 30 cases still alive; none of which have even presented their evidence yet.
Well if elections are ruled illegal according to the states' constitutions, and/or legitimate fraud findings are greater than the margin of victory, then those states' EC certifications would also have to be invalid, right? In other words, those EC votes will have to be nullified. Neither candidate gets them.
So my question for the lawfags in the audience... Could this still be a legitimate legal path to a Trump victory?
SCOTUS has not dismissed the PA case, though I think they could have by now. I know no one trusts SCOTUS after the Texas fiasco... but think about it. All three Trump picks voted against Trump?? That just doesn't smell right to me... I think that was to establish the optics of neutrality.
If that is the case, then SCOTUS is just waiting patiently for all the pending states' lawsuits to reach them. Because if the combined EC vote total of all the states' cases is enough to change the outcome of the election, they can rule that there actually was no EC winner. Therefore Biden did not win and his inauguration is not valid. Constitutionally, wouldn't SCOTUS then have to rule for a House Delegation vote to occur (1 vote per state) to determine a winner?
I remember that Trump was already favored to win a House delegation vote in January by a slim margin, well the house is even more republican now than it was then, so... Victory???
Thanks, I'll do some reading on those!
Is there any actual legal precedent that an inaugurated president can't removed if it is determined after the fact that he did not actually win?
Or is it something that has never been ruled on?