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He's referring to the new information that two of the young lawyers that were involved in the Bush v Gore case, are now supreme court justices installed by Trump



I don't follow. A 269-269 split, given how the states have broken, is staggeringly unlikely. Multiple states would have to be flipped, and since US elections are so distributed, it's unlikely for SCOTUS to find in such a way as to change the results of more than one of these states, if any.

And even if the election somehow ended up in the 12th Amendment case of the House deciding: the House is trending Democrat control.


Additionally, Justice Thomas was grilled by Senator Biden over Anita Hill's allegations.


"Grilled" is a strange way to describe "Reached a compromise in his position as Chair of the Judiciary Committee to suppress the testimony of four women whose stories supported Anita Hill's." Biden's soft-handling of the question of Thomas's conduct has been raised as a concern during this Presidential campaign.




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