Supreme Court Rules RFK Jr. Stays on Battleground Ballots

Wednesday, October 30, 2024

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.

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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.

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Funny: 1

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

@#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 | Reply

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 | Reply

Real
F-ing
Kooky
Jr

#14 | Posted by AMERICANUNITY at 2024-10-31 03:15 PM | Reply

Maybe if RFK Sr. had more time to raise his he wouldn't be such a jackass! So perhaps we should blame Sirhan Sirhan!

#15 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-01 02:11 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

SCOTUS is an utter travesty and a joke.
Clearly biased in favor of Trump/Conservatives.
Zero faith in the institution anymore.

#16 | Posted by earthmuse at 2024-11-01 06:32 AM | Reply

When will we finally start filing perjury charges against Supreme Court appointees who lie about "settled law" in Senate Judiciary hearings and said Roe v Wade was settled law but obviously were lying and showed their true selves only later by voting in the court to declare Roe v Wade unconstitutional 50 years after that decisiion? It could be the best avenue we have to cleaning house at the Supreme Court and ridding it of partisan hacks masquerading as Justices. The right wing conservative members of the court have made so many decisions completely unsupported by the Constitution or by precedent that it's either find a way of removing them or hust expand the court and overwhelm the conservatives with new appointees to make the long standing conservative majority become a long term minority. Democracy itself depends on yaking away the power the conservative majority has used to steal election (2000), make corporations people (2010), Roe v Wade (2022) THEY HAVE CONSISTENTLY favored Republican pokitical positions in a very predictablr series of decisions while accepting bribes from billionaires. One has to wonder, if Al Gore owned a mega-yacht and a private jet in 2000 would Bush v Gore been decided differently?

#17 | Posted by danni at 2024-11-01 10:03 AM | Reply