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Remember, the electoral college is in the middle of all of it too.I think the reasoning is that if the ruling stated there was fraud/corruption/etc., and the ballots that would not have counted in the election were thrown out and the remainder counted, there would be a Trump win.
Or they rule the whole thing null and void and Nancy sits on the throne long enough for a real (supposedly) election to occur for the remainder of this term.
The courts could invalidate some precincts, or even states where they rule that fraud occurred.
But the states are free to choose their electors as they please. There was a time when the state legislatures could chose them without any popular vote.
It the courts could rule on individual ballots, or batches of them, but they can't just rule that x number if Biden votes are invalid and switch the election.
It's not even clear if that would change things. If SCOTUS ruled that some precincts in the swing states were fraudulent, and threw out enough of the right votes to change the outcome that would change anything.
The electoral college met and voted for Biden. That is not in dispute. Of the 535 electors that voted, nobody disputes any of their votes. The only thing in dispute is whether all 535 were legitimately selected.
But, even if the right ones got thrown out, Biden *was* inaugurated. He is the POTUS, even if he acquired the office fraudulently.
I think a SCOTUS ruling that there was significant fraud, even enough to alter the result in 2020 would still leave Biden in office at this point.
Congress would have to impeach him to get him out. If they could demonstrate that he was involved with that fraud (or even was aware of it) that would be sufficient to impeach for sure.
Then we get Kamala. Unless you can demonstrate that she was in on it too. Can you do a double impeachment ? Maybe.
Then we get Kevin McCarthy.
At this point, the only path that puts Trump back in the oval office is the 2024 election.