Comment on [Hypothetical] What would have happened if the US Supreme Court had arbitrarily declared Donald J. Trump the winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election? Constitutional Crisis?

Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• ada@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  people would lose faith in the sanity of the courts.

  I mean, that part played out anyway…

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  • redballooon@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Only for the half of the people that previously thought the Supreme Court to think along their thoughts.

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• jasondj@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush\_v.\_Gore

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  • Izzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Your link doesn’t lead to anything, but if you are trying to suggest the supreme arbitrarily decided Bush won the presidency then that is factually incorrect. There was a court case about Florida’s ballots in particular that happened to be enough to decide the outcome of the presidential election.

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    • sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The Supreme Court decided the election.

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      • jasondj@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        More to the point, they stopped the recount.

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      • OptimusPhillip@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        But they didn’t decide it directly and arbitrarily, as OP is suggesting might have happened. The power to elect the President is in the hands of the Electoral College, and the House of Representatives. The most that a Supreme Court can do is tamper with the process of tallying the popular vote.

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• Fredselfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wait didn’t they decide it with Bush vs Gore? I read that Clarence was the deciding vote for why Bush was declared the winner even though he lost.

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  • Sylver@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The Supreme Court decided on whether or not to recount in Florida. They didn’t directly choose the winning candidate

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