Tuesday, October 29, 2024

Supreme Court Rules RFK Jr. Stays on Battleground Ballots

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdraw his name from ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin, battleground states where votes for his now suspended campaign could cut into support for former President Donald Trump.

Posted by Corky at 05:48 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

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Kennedy, who left the presidential race in August and endorsed Trump, urged the Supreme Court in an emergency appeal to force the states to yank his name from the ballots. But state election officials countered that early and absentee voting in the states was already well underway.

In other words, they said, it was too late.

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"Michigan told the Supreme Court this week that over 1.5 million voters had already returned absentee ballots with Kennedy's name listed as an option on them and that another 263,000 residents had voted early.

"This election is not merely imminent,' it is already underway, and voters are already voting," Michigan officials had told the Supreme Court.

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The Trump Rwing Court really had little choice with the States opposed because the vote was already underway.

But still, there was this poor excuse for a human bea'n:

"Justice Neil Gorsuch, a member of the court's conservative wing, dissented in the Michigan case."

A love note to Donold.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2024-10-29 05:52 PM

RFK Jr. is an embarrassment. Which reminds me of this:

Trump didn't want to name Donald Jr. after himself in case he was a loser
www.businessinsider.com
Sorry Bobby Kennedy Sr., but your name is now inextricably linked to your idiot son.

#2 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-29 06:14 PM

The Supreme Court declined Tuesday to let Robert F. Kennedy Jr. withdraw his name from ballots in Michigan and Wisconsin,

Where are the morons who like to tell us how the Supreme Court isn't biased.

I need some laughs.

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-10-29 06:17 PM

@#2 ... Sorry Bobby Kennedy Sr., but your name is now inextricably linked to your idiot son. ...

Currently, yes.

But in the long-term view of history?

I doubt of RFK, Jr will be anything more than a minor footnote to RFK, Sr's legacy.



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-29 06:48 PM

I doubt of RFK, Jr will be anything more than a minor footnote to RFK, Sr's legacy.
#4 | Posted by LampLighter

That's assuming Trump loses?

If RFK Junior helps Trump win (a la Jill Stein 2016! and Ralph Nader 2000!) ... so many possibilities!

#5 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-29 07:19 PM

@#5 ... That's assuming Trump loses? ...

It is my current opinion.

How the future may change that opinion is not yet known to me.


... If RFK Junior helps Trump win ...

I guess the best answer to that is a question, and veering back to the thread topic ...

If RFK Jr is on the ballot, which party does he draw votes from?


#6 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-29 07:43 PM

RFKJR draws votes from morons who don't know he's dropped out from the election.

Whether those idiots would have voted for Harris or Trump or Stein or just stayed at home is merely speculation.

#7 | Posted by ClownShack at 2024-10-29 07:50 PM

If RFK Jr is on the ballot, which party does he draw votes from?
#6 | Posted by LampLighter

Trump. That's why Hair Furor panicked and bribed Junior into dropping out.

RFK Jr. and the third-party effect are now hurting Trump
[...] there's increasing evidence that independent candidate Kennedy, in particular -- a candidate once elevated by Donald Trump's allies when he was challenging President Joe Biden in the Democratic primaries -- is pulling significantly more votes from Trump than Harris.
www.washingtonpost.com

#8 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-29 08:12 PM

@#6 ... It is my current opinion. ...

OK, rereading my comment, I want to elaborate.

I currently have no opinion of who will win or lose the election. For me, as many others, too close to tell.

The "my current opinion" comment in #6 was about what may happen if fmr Pres Trump loses, i.e., the result of his possible loss.

Yeah, I could have worded that better in #6.

#9 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-29 09:16 PM

If RFK Jr is on the ballot, which party does he draw votes from?
#6 | Posted by LampLighter

Straight from the wormbrained horse's mouth:

"In about 10 battleground states where my presence would be a spoiler, I'm going to remove my name, and I've already started that process and urge voters not to vote for me," Kennedy said. "Our polling consistently showed by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on the most existential issues."

#10 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-29 09:23 PM

Cite for the above quote of the guy who chops heads off of whales and leaves dead bears in parks: www.foxnews.com

#11 | Posted by censored at 2024-10-29 09:26 PM

@#10 ... "Our polling consistently showed by staying on the ballot in the battleground states, I would likely hand the election over to the Democrats, with whom I disagree on the most existential issues." ...

OK, then why does he think Democrats agree with his views?

And why does he think those views now seem to be taken on by Trump's MAGA cult?

Is he saying that MAGA now seems to espouse Democratic views?



#12 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-10-29 09:41 PM

LAMP @ #6

I don't know that it's that hard to figure out.

Since insurrection and fake electors didn't work the last time, my best guess is that he'll dispatch a team of legal scavengers to pull every loose string, exploit every nuance, intimidate, lie, scam, bribe and turn every mole hill into mountains as he drags his 'rigged election' grievances through the justice systemin in hopes he can create enough legal doubt and mass chaos to force the decision over to the House of Representatives before his 'secret' deal with Speaker Johnson peters out in the new Democrat controlled session on January 3, 2025.

#13 | Posted by Twinpac at 2024-10-29 10:11 PM

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