The US supreme court may turn this election into a constitutional crisis | Sidney Blumenthal

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Trump proclaims he is president wherever he is.
57% : Trump appointed Hur the US attorney for Maryland, which certainly met with the approval of Federalist Society chair Leonard Leo.
52% : With a supreme court ruling against Colorado, Trump would hail it as a major political victory, brandishing it as proof that all of the charges against him were motivated by partisanship.
50% : Beginning as a summer intern in 2000 at Kirkland & Ellis, where he had the model of partner Brett Kavanaugh, he clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist in the period when he was issuing opinions blocking abortion clinics from using Rico to sue anti-abortion protesters for damages, in Scheidler v National Organization for Women and striking down affirmative action to increase racial diversity in college admissions in Grutter v Bollinger and Gratz v Bollinger.
39% : The case for remanding Trump to jail in New York then goes to the supreme court.
37% : In the hearing of the Colorado case earlier this month, Chief Justice John Roberts cast aside the pretense of the conservative doctrines of originalism and textualism on which the supreme court has eviscerated voting rights, gun control and abortion rights.
34% : If the Democrats were to win the House, they could remove Trump.
31% : There was no appearance of obstruction of justice or perjury, as there was in the documents case against Trump.
31% : Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida responds that while Trump might be the president he will honor the extradition clause of the constitution to deliver him from Mar-a-Lago as a fugitive from justice.
30% : The reason is that now, according to this scenario, the 119th Congress, sworn in on 3 January 2025, could reject the electors from states for Trump by deciding that he is an insurrectionist.
26% : If there is a deadlock, the Ginsberg brief argues, the House still would have an option to remove Trump.
26% : All along, throughout the entire campaign year, that would mean that Trump has never been qualified.
25% : But before that would have taken place, the House could vote that Trump is excluded from a 12th amendment ballot because he was disqualified under the 14th amendment, section 3.
24% : Biden federalizes them, but the Republican governors proclaim that he has usurped power to keep himself in office illegitimately and that Trump is the truly elected president.
16% : Hur was an associate to deputy attorney general Rod Rosenstein, who defended attorney general William Barr's misrepresentation of a redacted version of the Mueller report on Russian interference in the presidential election of 2016 to assist Trump.
13% : If the Republicans win control of the Senate, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, refusing to whip the vote for Trump, could allow a number of Republican senators to vote for Trump's disqualification, which would void his electoral votes by both chambers.
11% : All the events of 2024 converge:The US supreme court's likely ruling in Trump v Anderson denying Colorado's disqualification of Trump under the constitution's 14th amendment, section 3; the exoneration of Joe Biden by special counsel Robert Hur for handling documents while sideswiping him as near senile; the ruling on Trump's immunity; the trial for his coup attempt; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott's defiance of federal court rulings in deploying his national guard to the border, supported by other Republican governors who have mobilized their guard units in similar acts of nullification - all these happenings could hurtle to a convulsive confrontation.

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