Do we have a general US politics thread? It'll be fun seeing what Biden/Congress/supreme court does or tries to do over the next 4 years unless you just wanna lump it into BDS. Georgia run off elections are in January so we won't see if the senate stays red until then. But Republicans
probably are gonna win.
Supreme Court heard argument today California Versus Texas about 3 hours ago.
Here are the questions that the Supreme court will vote on
No California isn't suing Texas. Texas and all the red states are suing the federal government and California and all the Blue states are taking the other side. Back in 2012 the Supreme court said a tax for not having health insurance was fine (Individual mandate of Obamacare). So in 2017 Trump and the Republicans said ok sure have a tax, but we are gonna make it $0. Texas and the reds quickly sued to say they should just throw out Obamacare, and California and the blues said no don't throw it out.
The argument is pretty boring in terms of Supreme court cases. Only thing of note is that this is Justice Amy Coney Barrett's (just got appointed 2 weeks ago by Trump) first big decision. Otherwise its a bunch of justices throwing out hypotheticals about whether congress back in 2017 killed Obamacare or if they don't need a mandate. Problem is when they made Obamacare they said the individual mandate was a key component and if they don't have it, the law is dead. But they basically haven't had one for 3 years and things have been running fine so I doubt they will strike down Obamacare. All the articles about this case are pointing to keeping Obamacare. So if the Supreme court says yes to Obamacare (again) then I assume Biden is going to try and reverse Trumps $0 mandate and we will all be paying $750+ a year again. Or the red senate is gonna throw a bitch fit and Biden and McConnel are gonna have a slap fight over how much we should tax everyone.
Also I highly doubt the supreme court is going to "hand Trump the win". The day after the election when everyone thought PA was gonna decide maybe they had a chance. Now they would have to prove some kind of bizarre combo of GA, PA, AZ, NV, WI all being proved that there was wide spread election fraud AND that it was enough to swing EVERYTHING to Trump. Bush V Gore was different because it all was singled down to JUST Florida. Not even the whole state, but a few counties in Florida. The Supreme court already ruled PA can extend absentee ballot counts so they already are favoring Bidens stance.