The TAKE with Rick Klein

It’s not a trick question. The answer speaks aloud to anyone who thinks of post-election nightmare scenarios, whatever their motivations.

President Donald Trump has crossed a new threshold by undermining the legitimacy of the election and invokes the option of a contested election as a component of his argument to temporarily hold the position of former judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and now refuses to pursue only a transition of nonviolent power.

“We’ll have to see what happens,” Trump said Wednesday.

Is this a showman preparing a season finale full of suspense, a turn reaction that marks an opportunity where the president, according to the defenders, is taken seriously and not to the letter?

It’s up to the president to explain. What is transparent is that it is making false statements, un baselessly accusing Democrats of a “scam” and worse, when voting is already underway.

It is Trump who spreads lies on the ballots by mail, Trump wrongly pointing out that the winner will have to resolve on Election Day and Trump refuses to devote himself to respecting the election results. demanding situations that can put elections into chaotic overtime.

Doomsday scenarios may be remote probabilities, but they are bubbling up in genuine conversations. The chairman of the Pennsylvania Republican Party showed in an interview with Atlantic Barton Gellman that an option under consideration, if the electoral effects appear to be unreliable in the eyes of state legislators. , is to have a designated electorate through the state legislature.

“This is one of the legal characteristics set forth in the Constitution,” Lawrence Tabas said, reading chillingly about what might happen after Election Day.

Adjustments to the way other people live and how states manage their votes are immense this year. Global politics is adapting to the truth that election night is unlikely to end neatly.

Trump does not settle for this authenticity; is a conscious resolution of the president. Election considerations are and will be genuine enough. The president stoking unfounded fears has a faster and potentially damaging purpose.

REDUCED with MaryAlice Parks

The National Bar Association describes itself as “the oldest and largest national network of predominantly African-American lawyers and judges” and said on Wednesday night that “no justice was done” in the case of Breonna Taylor’s death.

“It’s been more than six months since Breonna Taylor’s guiltless life was recklessly taken through careless, careless, distant law enforcement officers who swore to protect and serve her,” she said. “At what point do the facts want to be clearer to the public?officials on the floor to take appropriate and fair action without riots or public protests. “

Trump, on the other hand, applauded the Kentucky grand jury’s resolve to rate only one officer for endangering neighbors in the police shooting that killed Taylor and calling the other officials involved in his death.

Trump read Wednesday’s parts of the local attorney general to reporters.

“Justice is not easy. It does not correspond to the mold of public opinion. And it doesn’t conform to conversion standards. It responds only to facts and the law. (. . . ) it’s not justice. Popular justice is not justice,” said Daniel Cameron, a Republican who was the first African-American to be elected to work in the state, explaining the positions.

The resolution in Kentucky has already provoked more pain, trauma and protest among many, especially those fighting for racial equality, corrupt justice and police reform. Democratic nominee Joe Biden said he understood the preference to take to the streets.

“Protesting makes a lot of sense. It’s transparent that other people can talk, but not violence,” he said.

With Election Day in a few weeks and voting already underway, can the case lead to renewed determination by other young people to move to the polls or apathy if justice continues to feel unequal or distant?

TIP with Justin Gomez

Before the president appointed to the vacant position through Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Vice President Mike Pence praised Judge Amy Coney Barrett.

“Judge Barrett is a common jurist,” Pence told ABC News Live host Linsey Davis on Wednesday, adding that she was part of a women’s organization that is currently being studied.

Barrett, a former Notre Dame law professor who commissioned Judge Antonin Scalia, is also a devout Catholic. Religious conservatives see him as a possible pick who could topple Roe against Wade, but she never ruled over an abortion meal. dued case.

In his interview with ABC News Live, Pence also criticized the “bigotry” he said he saw from Democrats at his confirmation hearing in 2017, when they warned him that their devout ideals could influence his thinking about the historic 1973 decision.

“Intolerance expressed its latest confirmation hearings about its Catholic faith, in fact I think it has done a skinny favor to the procedure and a sadness to millions of Americans,” he said.

THE PLAYLIST

ABC News Podcast “Start Here. Thursday morning’s episode features Alex Perez of ABC News in Louisville, Kentucky, about how the city is responding to the grand jury announcement in the case of Breonna Taylor. ABC News senior reporter Devin Dwyer explains how suburbs reacting to the fight over the post of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and ABC News Congressional Chief Correspondent Mary Bruce summarizes a Senate hearing Wednesday with senior fitness officials on the government’s reaction to the pandemic.

ABC News’ “Powerhouse Politics” podcast, Senator Dick Durbin, a Democrat for Illinois, The Senate Whip Democrat, rejected On Wednesday requests for Democrats to bring more justices up to the Supreme Court next year if they take control of the Senate and the White House in retaliation for The Republican plans to hold Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s seat a few weeks before the election. “There is no serious verbal exchange between my colleagues about this perspective. It’s speculative, it’s in the future, if it is,” Durbin, the democratic Senate moment, told ABC News correspondent Jonathan Karl and political director Rick Klein . . . https://abcaudio. com/podcasts/powerhouse-politics/

“Your voice, your vote: the collapse” ABC News Live will load a new post-noon political program, “Your Voice, Your Vote: Collapse,” to its agenda. Anchored through ABC News Live Update host Diane Macedo and ABC News senior national correspondent Terry Moran, the original 30-minute program discusses the vital issues for the electorate and audience to make an informed resolution about their position on a problem. The program will be broadcast on weekdays from Monday at 3 pm ET / noon PT.

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