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2025-09-05 -Land of the Free
The Atlantic: Why, Yes, The Point Of Lawfare Is To Overturn Any Elections Republicans Win
[Federalist] Democrat Party leaders invited an Atlantic news hound to tell the world their current political strategy is to use U.S. courts to reject the consequences of losing a presidential election. "The Anti-Trump Strategy That’s Actually Working," say Michael Scherer’s Sept. 2 headline and subhed, is "Lawsuits, lawsuits, and more lawsuits."

The vast majority of the nearly 400 lawsuits filed against the second Trump administration in its first seven months, Scherer reports, did not organically arise from American needs and on-the-ground realities. No, they were pre-planned in advance, and plaintiff cutouts recruited from Democrat constituencies including activist groups and labor unions. These lawsuits are cut-and-paste operations designed to deny American voters the results of electing a Republican president, using complicit blue-state judges who care nothing for the rule of law or Constitution.

"This backbone of the Trump resistance has as much in common with political organizing and investigative reporting as it does with legal theory," Scherer writes, unashamedly describing the lawsuits as overt political operations created years in advance of Donald Trump
...Oh, noze! Not him!...
’s second inauguration. "... Attorneys general would represent states, advocacy groups such as Public Citizen and the ACLU would focus on their areas of expertise, and the unions would gather stories from their members and identify plaintiffs who could show harm. Atop this infrastructure, new organizations took shape, bringing in tens of millions of dollars to pay for it all."

This article recalls the infamous Time article by Molly Ball describing how a similar — and surely overlapping — constellation of well-funded leftist groups and politicians "fortifi[ed]" the 2020 election with lawsuits and other efforts pushing unreliable voting methods.

COURTS OVERTURNING ELECTIONS
The truth is, Democrats
...every time you hear the phrase white people, white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
as a party no longer respect election results, a key component of self-government. They have moved on from respecting Americans’ individual illusory sovereignty to dominating us by any means necessary.

Courts have thus become an essential component of Democrats’ election-denial political strategy, simply because hundreds are eagerly cooperating with this scheme. Why do the hard but fair political work of getting major measures through Congress when you can simply run your policy preferences through unelected courts willing to commandeer the entire nation at the flick of a computer keyboard?

As Scherer writes, this strategy has been extremely successful:

Since Inauguration Day, executive orders have been defanged or blocked, agency closures delayed, government-employee firings reversed. Deportation flights have been delayed, law firms have freed themselves from Trump’s retaliation, and foreign students have won the ability to continue studying at U.S. universities. Courts have forced the president to restore cut services and spending to AmeriCorps, the U.S. African Development Foundation, the CDC, and other agencies. They have upended an effort by the Office of Refugee Resettlement to make it more difficult to release unaccompanied minors from government custody and forced Trump to pay for foreign-aid bills he had hoped to stiff-arm. A federal appeals court ruled Friday that many of Trump’s tariffs were illegal, setting up a likely hearing by the Supreme Court

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2 Soap Box -> Ballot Box -> Ammo Box

That's its boys, keep undermining the legitimacy of the courts. We're watching. FAFO
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-09-05 07:02||   2025-09-05 07:02|| Front Page Top

3 The mid-term election cycle is going to be Electoral Fallujah.
Posted by Super Hose 2025-09-05 07:18||   2025-09-05 07:18|| Front Page Top

4 The phrase "Our Democracy" means 'we win'. Pure and simple.
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