Submitted 9 months ago by WtfEvenIsExistence@lemmy.ca to [deleted]
Assuming everything else was the same, but we branch off into a parallel universe where the US Supreme Court just ignore facts and arbitrarily decided by a 5-4 vote (assuming Roberts side with the 3 liberal justices, because that’s probably the most realistic scenario) that Donald J. Trump is the winner of the election. What would happen? Civil war?
Asking because I’m a pessimist and always think of worst-case scenarios.
The supreme court doesn’t decide the president of the unite states so probably nothing would happen.
people would lose faith in the sanity of the courts.
I mean, that part played out anyway…
Only for the half of the people that previously thought the Supreme Court to think along their thoughts.
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.
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.
The Supreme Court decided on whether or not to recount in Florida. They didn’t directly choose the winning candidate
What would happen to a supreme court who decides that the moon has the shape of a triangle and is pink?
dingdongmetacarples@lemmy.world 9 months ago
A case would have to be presented to the court. Assuming the court decides to hear it, their decision would be legally binding. But that only applies to that case. There couldn’t and wouldn’t be a case of “who won the election”, it’s decided by the states and is clearly indicated in the Constitution. That’s why Trump desperately wanted to “send it back to the states”. The state legislatures and governors would be able to muck with the results, but thankfully that didn’t happen.
The most important votes are for local officials and don’t forget it.