Moksha wrote: ↑Fri Sep 20, 2024 4:44 am
I'm guessing that Trump will sweep the Arizona Mormon vote by 80% to 20% and that the
Mormon Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square will perform at Trump's inauguration/coronation along with Kid Rock and precision marching group from North Korea.
That frightens me! How can a religion that supposedly advocates, honesty, compassion and morality even begin to support anyone as evil and obviously corrupt as Donald J. Trump? I am also frightened by this:
How Supreme Court could 'hand the presidency to Trump'
During an early August appearance on ITK, radio host Charlamagne tha God predicted that if Vice President Kamala Harris wins the 2024 presidential race, the "corrupt" and "illegitimate" U.S. Supreme Court will overturn the election results and put GOP rival Donald Trump back in the White House. And Charlamagne isn't the only one who fears that possibility.
In an article published on September 20, Salon's Heather Digby Parton also warns that because of the Roberts Court, Trump could lose the election yet return to the White House anyway.
Parton argues that if MAGA Republicans stir up enough chaos after the election and the matter is litigated to the High Court, the GOP-appointed justices cannot be trusted to do the right thing.
Parton also examines "concerns about the role of the House speaker should the Republicans maintain their majority."
"The current Speaker Mike Johnson wrote an amicus brief back in 2020 on behalf of Trump asking the Supreme Court to essentially overturn swing-state results," Parton notes. "There are concerns that if he is the speaker next January 6, he will use the power of his office for Trump's benefit once again. Politico reports there are several possibilities, ranging from changing the rules, which merely exist by tradition, for the counting of the votes on January 6 to asking the courts to rule on the constitutionality of the ECRA (Electoral Count Reform Act). That would inevitably end up in the Supreme Court as well."
Parton adds, "In fact, it appears that if they really push this, all roads lead to the High Court, which is terrifying…. This is not a court I would trust to be judicious when it comes to this presidential election."
The good news, according to Parton, is that "Democrats are prepared with legal responses every step of the way."
"But if the election is very close and it ends up in the Supreme Court as Bush v. Gore did, there is a very good chance they will hand the presidency to (Trump)," Parton warns. "They clearly have no care for whatever legitimacy they once had."
Justices Thomas and Alito, at least, clearly seem to be in the pocket of wealthy corporate donors from whom they have accepted literally millions in gifts and bribes and should have recused themselves from numerous cases involving those donors. I don't see how one can reasonably deny they are guilty of breaking the law on behalf of both themselves and those donors. In my opinion they are in the same predicament as Trump, himself: They know that their only hope of avoiding just criminal prosecution of themselves is retaining or regaining the power to which they aspire. The conservative justices (especially the ones Trump, himself, appointed) seem willing to bend over backwards, if necessary, to accommodate Trump whenever possible.
No precept or claim is more suspect or more likely to be false than one that can only be supported by invoking the claim of Divine authority for it--no matter who or what claims such authority.
