So I Go Outside To Hang Xmas Lights....

Email to every member of House GOP from ⁦@RepMikeJohnson⁩, R-LA, soliciting signatures for an amicus brief in the longshot Texas lawsuit seeking to invalidate electoral college votes from GA MI PA and WI. Trump is “anxiously awaiting the final list” to see who signs on. pic.twitter.com/QrksypyHv9

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 9, 2020

All of this happened yesterday, I just didn't feel like posting it then.

3/ For a conservative take, @gtconway3d weighed in on this case on @TheLeadCNN yesteday: "The notion that the Supreme Court is going to have a litigation...where states are attacking each others' rules for choosing electors is insane," he said. https://t.co/tPzmUEsAhn

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 9, 2020

Well, a half-assed coup. A coup lite. A wannabe-coup. Because Ken Paxton is a wannabe-AG.  He's also chasing a car he has no intention of catching.  It's all about the running and the barking, because the stage is emptying and the lights are about to go out; this is his last chance before 2022, when he stands for re-election.

5/ One House Republican was put off by the @RepMikeJohnson email.

"Are we the party of list-making now?" the Member of Congress asked me.

— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) December 9, 2020

Joe McCarthy had a list. Joe McCarthy was a Republican. None of the Republicans in office then said shit about Joe McCarthy. Just sayin'....(and the House member Tapper quotes is unnamed.)

Pretty clearly, if Donald Trump could have overturned the election results and seized power through court challenges or other routes, he would have—and also pretty clearly, there are not many Republican leaders who would have opposed him as he did.

— Edward-Isaac Dovere (@IsaacDovere) December 9, 2020

See, e.g., Joe McCarthy.

🙄 https://t.co/zfGqrQpNlh

— George Conway (@gtconway3d) December 9, 2020

Because, like Ted Cruz, they know it'll never happen. But the rubes don't, and they have to appease the rubes.

The brief also argues that executive officials shouldn't be able to mess with voting rules. But Texas -- the plaintiff in this case, the state they're supporting -- did that very thing. The governor used executive power to extend the early voting period, among other things. pic.twitter.com/aHFUJH9pOD

— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 9, 2020

Don't look at what I do, make them do what I say!

The states' argue that changes to voting procedures in GA, MI, PA and WI "undermined the liberty of all Americans," including the voters in other states. pic.twitter.com/b6PUDKS1BI

— Brad Heath (@bradheath) December 9, 2020

I guess they think that sounds like a 14th Amendment argument. A first year ConLaw student would know better. (I told you there was a reason the Texas Solicitor General wouldn't sign this turd. He knows better than to shit where he eats.)

Same. Full stop. https://t.co/z7gKfgUXlx

— Rick Hasen (@rickhasen) December 9, 2020

We may know by the time you read this. Besides, the very act of intervention blocks the Court’s jurisdiction:

The central purpose of #SCOTUS’s “original” jurisdiction is for disputes between states that can’t be resolved elsewhere.

Successful intervention by another party would prove that the dispute *could* be resolved elsewhere — and that there’s nothing unique about Texas’s claims. pic.twitter.com/lZ1AB9kNWE

— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 9, 2020

Not that it matters anymore:

All 306 electoral votes for Biden have been certified after Hawaii finalized results last night pic.twitter.com/K1eODO9otT

— Ari Berman (@AriBerman) December 9, 2020

This is, by law, conclusive upon Congress. It's over.

Now Trump has tweeted, "How can a Country be run like this?” Not making this up.

— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) December 9, 2020

"Facts don't care about your feelings."

This is likely the first time this argument has been made by a sitting president https://t.co/OKDE6eU24y

— Jonathan Lemire (@JonLemire) December 9, 2020

"Quick! Amend that motion before the Supreme Court!!!!"

Okay, finally found Trump's original tweet (I wasn't going to do this, but....)

If somebody cheated in the Election, which the Democrats did, why wouldn’t the Election be immediately overturned? How can a Country be run like this?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 9, 2020

Because if there was any cheating, you never presented evidence of it in 53 cases before the courts. Even if there was cheating, no court in American history has ever remedied such fraud by declaring the election null and void and requiring either a do-over or simply announcing a winner by judicial fiat. What you are looking for cannot be granted. We run a country like this on laws, and those laws are administered by so many persons in so many places that the kind of massive fraud you allege is simply and literally impossible. One might as well believe in the Illuminati and the world-wide Jewish conspiracy and black helicopters and the "deep state." But I forget who I'm talking to.

You're done. Party's over. Pack up and go back to Florida. They voted for you, at least.