• Chainweasel@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Didn’t we just have a supreme Court decision that said states can’t ban presidential candidates from the national ballot?

    • sylver_dragon@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      Yes, for a completely unrelated reason. There have been filling deadlines for candidates at basically every level of government for a very long time and those have never been successfully challenged in court. And even with the most liberal Judges on the SCOTUS likely wouldn’t bat an eye at them. The problem here isn’t Alabama (for once) it’s the DNC being so high on it’s own shit that they assumed the laws wouldn’t be applied to them. Sure, the State Legislature could pass a law temporarily waiving that requirement. It seems awful stupid to bet on it when the convention could happen a week earlier and avoid the whole thing.

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      7 months ago

      Biden is missing all these states, because the DNC set their convention for so late in the summer, it missed the deadline to notify states who the party’s nominee is to be on the ballot.

      DNC can easily move the convention up and Biden be on all ballots.

      But I’m case you haven’t noticed, the unelected people running the DNC tend to make ridiculous demands and never back down.

      There’s a decent chance they won’t do the very easy solution of moving the convention up.

      If they thought rules applied to them, they’d have checked the most basic part of our political system to see when signups were due.

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        7 months ago

        Or they’re doing it on purpose. DNC has no hope in Alabama, but if they don’t put him on the ballot the dnc may be counting on it enraging some of the blue voters in all the other states to go vote out of spite.

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      7 months ago

      I think the DNC wants Trump to win. Has the Biden administration looked to see if bad actors are not running it?

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        7 months ago

        I think you’re right, and the Biden admin is complicit in this plot. Dems don’t want to lead, they want to fundraise off of “orange man bad!”