Inside Trump's 2024 blueprint for stealing the White House

Sometimes I hate being right. As Chief Justice Rehnquist wrote in the 2000 Bush v Goredecision when the US Supreme Court overturned the Florida Supreme Court’s order for a recount that would have given the election to Al Gore: “The individual citizen has no federal constitutional right to vote for electors for the President of the United States… he state legislature’s power to select the manner for appointing electors is plenary; it may, if it so chooses, select the electors itself, which indeed was the manner used by state legislatures in several States for many years after the framing of our Constitution.” Every state’s legislature generally directs all their electors to vote for the candidate who won the majority in the state, a system we call “winner takes all,” but, as Rehnquist noted, a state’s legislature can, by simple majority vote, direct its electors to vote for any candidate they want, even over the objection of their governor. But if Republicans can hold the House, there’s a good chance that Speaker Mike Johnson would happily hold the vote to declare Harris’ win as “fraudulent.” After all, he’s the guy who corralled fully 147 votes against certifying the 2020 election in the House; his being the ringleader of that effort is the main reason he’s the speaker right now. Seizing control of the Senate would be the icing on the cake for this scheme, as it’s also sworn in on January 3rd and also votes to certify the Electoral College vote, but a deadlock is only necessary in one of the two legislative bodies, and if the 12th Amendment is invoked by six Republicans on the Supreme Court because of that deadlock only the House votes for president. That would provide an easy excuse for the six Republicans on the Supreme Court to intervene, invoke the 12th Amendment, and to throw the election to the House, guaranteeing Trump’s victory.