Trump Lawyer NUKES Sotomayor's "Fraudulent Electors" Talking Point at SCOTUS "Apply it to the allegations here. What is plausible about the president assisting in creating a fraudulent slate of electoral candidates, assuming you accept the facts of the complaint on their face, is that plausible that that would be within his right to do?" Sotomayor asked. "Absolutely, your honor," Trump attorney John Sauer responded. "We have the historical precedent we cite in the lower courts of President Grant sending federal troops to Louisiana and Mississippi in 1876 to make sure that the Republican electors got certified in those two cases, which delivered the election to Rutherford Hayes." "The notion that is completely implausible, I think, just can't be supported based on the faces of this indictment or even..." he continued. "Knowing that the slate is fake, knowing that the slate is fake, that they weren't actually elected, that they weren't certified by the state. He knows all those things..." Sotomayor objected. "The indictment itself alleges, I dispute that characterization. The indictment affixes the word label to the so-called fraudulent lectures. It fixes the word fraudulent, but that's a complete mischaracterization," he replied. "On the face of the indictment, it appears that there was NO DECEIT about who had emerged from the relevant state conventions, and this was being done as an alternative basis," he concluded. Thus buries a dishonest partisan Democrat talking point about the "fake electors" plot. It is a Constitutionally authorized process contingent upon the results of Electoral College votes. This is what the Democrat-controlled media does: Twist the language to promote their political agenda in defiance of the law and the U.S. Constitution.
Historical fun fact: Hawaii Democrats in 1960 submitted an alternate set of electors for JFK even though the Republican, Richard M. Nixon, had been declared the winner and the Governor had certified the Republican slate of electors. No one was ever charged or prosecuted.
@kylenabecker In Hawaii in 1960, there was a court-ordered recount ONGOING when the Electoral College voted. There was no such recount in 2020. *NO* state authorized "alternate" electors in 2020.