2020 U.S. Presidential Election - Took place November 3, 2020. Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden assumed office January 20, 2021.

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Please god let it freaking end
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EDIT: I actually came here to say THE LICH IS SLAIN
 
Murkowski is a loser and has already said she won't vote on a nominee before the election. I expect Romney to cuck out. Collins will probably not vote for a nominee because she has an election coming up. But that's all I see defecting.
This mindset is so puzzling to me. Are the final 4 months of a term supposed to not count? Why be so weak and refuse to do your job?

The person to blame here is RBG for not resigning when she's been dying for 2 years. But, I suppose that doesn't matter when the Presidential nominee she's cheering for is already clearly dying himself.
 
Michigan Court of Claims judge decrees that the state must accept late-arriving mail-in ballots for fourteen days after the election. The case was brought by the Michigan Alliance for Retired Americans against Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson.
Judge Cynthia Stephens also ruled "that absentee voters can get help from any person they choose in returning their ballot in the final days before the Nov. 3 election.
Current election law requires an absentee ballot to be returned by the voter, an immediate family member or someone residing in the voter’s household. The voter can also get help from a local government clerk, but that option expires at 5 p.m. on the Friday prior to the Tuesday election.
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Her ruling allows for a voter to choose anyone they want to return their ballot, but only if it’s between 5 p.m. Friday before election day and 8 p.m. on election day."
Judge Stephens denied the Alliance's request to eliminate the requirement for voters to supply their own postage, on the grounds that the burden imposed is slight and not likely to discourage anyone from voting.
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My timeline of such policies has been updated.
Reposting my rundown of absentee ballot deadlines because I noticed it had changed since two weeks ago, and also I made some mistakes myself. Selected swing states in bold.
I missed Georgia and North Dakota on the last list.
New Jersey's deadline is 7 days, not 48 hours.
California's deadline is 17 days, not 3.
Washington D.C.'s deadline is 10 days, not 7.

Source is this website, which might not be entirely accurate. The page says some states may have changed policies due to Corona, but I'm not going to look that up for all 51 of them. I may glance over it in another two weeks to see if anything else has changed.
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1 day:
Texas

3 days after election day:
Georgia (3 business days)
Kansas
North Carolina
[Pennsylvania]
Virginia (noon)

5 days after election day:
Washington

6 days after election day:
Iowa
Utah
West Virginia (for postmarked ballots, one day for those with no postmark)

7 days after election day:
Minnesota
New Jersey (by 8:00 PM)
New York

10 days after election day:
Alaska
D.C.
Maryland (by 10:00 AM)
Ohio

14 days after election day:
Illinois
[Michigan. (This election only, by court order.)]

17 days after election day:
California

Apparently no limit:
Nevada
North Dakota

[ETA: Pennsylvania's Supreme Court has ordered the state to accept late ballots.]
[ETA: Michigan Court of Claims has ordered the state to accept late ballots.]
 
Is it even theoretically possible to fill the newly vacant SCOTUS seat before election?

On one hand, it would be bad optics to be seen to rush through a new judge before the seat is even cold, and give the impression of the GOP having little faith in their ability to win the election.

On the other hand, anyone who hasn't been swayed by 4+ years of constant 'bad optics' towards bad orange man is unlikely to care about one more thing, even it it for once has some merit. And having Ginsbergs seat already filled by a conservative could demoralise the Dem base who might othervies have just gotten something to rally behind instead of their decrepit and barely cognitive presidential candidate.
 
Is it even theoretically possible to fill the newly vacant SCOTUS seat before election?

On one hand, it would be bad optics to be seen to rush through a new judge before the seat is even cold, and give the impression of the GOP having little faith in their ability to win the election.

On the other hand, anyone who hasn't been swayed by 4+ years of constant 'bad optics' towards bad orange man is unlikely to care about one more thing, even it it for once has some merit. And having Ginsbergs seat already filled by a conservative could demoralise the Dem base who might othervies have just gotten something to rally behind instead of their decrepit and barely cognitive presidential candidate.
It's possible, but expect shit to get fucking crazy fast.

Also, if anyone thinks Monmoth polling is nonpartisan:
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Is it even theoretically possible to fill the newly vacant SCOTUS seat before election?

On one hand, it would be bad optics to be seen to rush through a new judge before the seat is even cold, and give the impression of the GOP having little faith in their ability to win the election.

On the other hand, anyone who hasn't been swayed by 4+ years of constant 'bad optics' towards bad orange man is unlikely to care about one more thing, even it it for once has some merit. And having Ginsbergs seat already filled by a conservative could demoralise the Dem base who might othervies have just gotten something to rally behind instead of their decrepit and barely cognitive presidential candidate.
You make some good points, but remember that Obama left judge seats vacant and we saw how well that worked out for him and his legacy.
 
In terms of the polls and whatnot, I don't think that RBG's passing is going to affect them. The people freaking the hell out right now are already "Vote Blue No Matter Who and Orange Man Bad" people.

The thing that is going to affect this election, in my opinion, is voter fraud. That is the only thing, as a Trump supporter, that I am greatly concerned about.
 
You make some good points, but remember that Obama left judge seats vacant and we saw how well that worked out for him and his legacy.
Any reason why this happened, btw? Seems like it'd be wise to pack the courts and influence the nation that way through legal interpretation and precedent than relying on executive or legislative power, which has a tendency to be unruly.
I have never looked into it and was unaware of this until Trump mentioned when he got into office there were hundreds of vacancies or something absurd.

Unless Obama and his administration saw it as a boon to overload the courts or something... But that's tinfoil tier.
 
It's a weird feeling but I truly am praying for the safety of one Ruth Bader Ginsburg. I believe voter apathy is way up since Biden and Kamala just don't connect with voters. And if a mere 3 percent of Hillary's voters just don't care or forget to vote well that's Game Over because I know everyone who voted Trump is going to vote for him again as the Democrats have gone further left and into riot mode.

That would change if RBG just got exposed to a single cold virus and just collapsed into a pile of mush and leather. The left would instantly revive the "Notorious RBG" cult propaganda and scream that they gotta save Ruth's seat. If Trump dared replaced the seat now you'd have a left shitfit.

Stay safe RBG, I know you want to reunited with your husband Lucifer you can return to him before Thanksgiving.
Oh god what did you do?
 
Owning the libs by becoming the lib?

Nah just that ACB is way too high profile pro-life. A conservative mamacita on the SCOTUS without that baggage to inflame the hordes of dangerhairs would prove to Latinos in America that the liberals who profess to love them actually just want to use them (since we know they'll try to slime her regardless). A black woman would be even better. There's also an Asian woman in Chicago, Martha Pacold, who could be good for that, but I think playing idpol against the leftists where it hurts them most electorally is the best way to take advantage of the situation.

Edit: Also pushing a nomination while Kamala is on the Senate Judiciary takes her away from campaigning. And if it's through Zoom, there's no real chance that she gets those hot takes that look great in the media during these showtime hearings. But I'm not certain if that's the procedure for the Judiciary Committee. I guess if not, and it's in person, then it takes away a little from the Harris-Biden "we care about coronavirus and will stay locked down until 20XX" push?
 
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