Life Outside the Law
For Relief from the Election, the Constitution and Recovery from Turmoil,
Read a Book BY JANYCE C. KATZ
One month to the day after the inauguration of the 46th president of the United States, Joe Biden, Suffolk University/USA Today released the results of a poll indicating that 73 percent of Republicans who voted for a second term for the 45th President still believe Donald Trump actually won the election.i The survey of 1,000 Trump voters, identified from 2020 polls, was taken by landline and cellphone Monday through Friday the week before. About half of those polled said that they supported Trump over
the Republican Party, and considered it important that Republicans be more loyal to the former President. Many of them also believe that Antifa, not Trump supporters, stormed the Capital on January 6. One day later, SCOTUS refused to hear a case brought by Republicans (petitions for writs of certiorari denied and case moot) and even the minority dissent, written by Justice Thomas and another by Justice Alito, joined by Justice Gorsuch, agreed that there were not sufficient votes in contention to change the election results.ii The three justices did argue that the question of the State’s Supreme Court having the ability to extend the date ballots could come in but needed to be decided before the next election. This case joins the other cases, over 60 of them, that were filed and decided during the after-election period. No evidence of the alleged massive fraud emerged in any of the cases. But, still, people believe the stories and lies. Many of those arrested for their actions on January 6 said that they were trying to defend the country and the presidential election results they thought were accurate. Still others, like some of the Republican party leaders when condemning those who voted for impeachment of Trump, argue the attack on the Hill was a hoax of some sort. Either Antifa in MAGA costumes were there, or it was all a created illusion; in either interpretation, they saw it as an attempt
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