I think it was mention here a few times, but since nothing really followed up on it, it was kinda ignored, if I remember correctly.
I might be lagging behind a bit in the thread because I've largely tuned it out due to the hysterics, so I'm just sitting on my hands and waiting for everything to make its way up through the courts. People seem to be largely panicking due to the "safe harbour" dates, but even that's all but a formality that's actually been shuffled around before in the past, because the 8th and 14th deadlines in December actually have no Constitutional basis. Current Electoral deadlines are
Federal statute, not Constitutional law, and they're
somewhat recent, all things considered. The electors meeting and voting--and Congress tabulating their votes--has only been a Federal law
since 1948.
The "safe harbour" on December 8th does not apply to states wherein violations of election laws occurred that could throw the vote into question. That letter up there in particular is drawing attention to violations of local election laws for Pennsylvania, and I don't believe that's an accident.
Technically speaking, in the process of the election, the only Constitutionally set date that's mandated is the assumption of office on January 20th. Everything else can be shuffled around, because
that's happened before in 1789, 1844, 1876, and 1932.
The 1876 election was an odd one, because the electoral vote was tabulated by Congress on the second Wednesday in February, so that one was a
bit behind schedule but it was also a
bit of a mess. The point more-so is that there's already precedent for changing or delaying the election's deadlines in the event of unclear or questionable results, or other extenuating circumstances.
I don't think his strategy was ever to try and win these fights at the local levels. The more that this goes on and the bigger the mess becomes, I'm starting to wonder if his legal team's goal in all of this is to make such a disasterous clusterfuck out of the whole ordeal that when it all gets thrown into the higher courts, they have to fall back on legal precedents and Constitutional tests, because this still isn't a normal election by any regard.
I know that everyone's resigned to this one way or the other, but I still consider most of this to be up in the air, and there's several reasons why I keep saying that I don't consider it over until someone concedes or someone's inaugurated. Everything else is such a mess and there's so many twists and turns left in the road that trying to pull a definitive out of it is almost ridiculous, especially if Biden decides to play with his dog again and winds up flying out of a damned window.