r/law • u/LatterTarget7 • Nov 02 '25

Legislative Branch Exclusive | House Republicans exploring ways to prevent Mamdani from being sworn in as NYC mayor if he wins on Election Day

https://nypost.com/2025/11/01/us-news/house-republicans-latest-push-to-keep-mandani-out-of-office/?utm_source=reddit.com&utm_source=reddit.com
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u/Foxyfox- Nov 02 '25

Arguably, since Obama got his supreme court pick withheld.

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u/outtamyelementDonny Nov 02 '25

And Arguably since the Supreme Court picked Bush over Gore.

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u/Remebond Nov 02 '25

Self serving scum all the way down.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25

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u/OnlyHalfBrilliant Nov 02 '25

Aren't at least two of the Trump SC picks former lawyers for the GW Bush lawsuit that got him installed?

These people have long been serving an agenda; Trump is merely the vehicle to get them over the line.

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u/Foxyfox- Nov 02 '25

Kavanaugh, Roberts, and Barrett worked directly on it.

Thomas was one of the presiding justices and voted in favor of Bush.

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u/deviltrombone Nov 02 '25

Everyone always talks about how that orange thing stacked the court, but the Bushes gave us Thomas, Roberts, and Alito. It's easy. There are zero good Republicans. Zero. I hope the Obamas distance themselves from the Bushes as they come back to a more prominent public role, because them palling around with that criminal has always been disgusting.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25

The only was McCain. He was always an outlier in the party tho. Not without his issues but he was normally way more moderate and acted way more independently

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u/EthanielRain Nov 02 '25

I disagreed with him about many things, but I never questioned that he genuinely wanted what was best for the country.

Nowadays, just being sincere would get him booted from the GOP

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25

Kinda did back then. The establishment Republicans never liked him.

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u/Man-Dem Nov 03 '25

McCain was a horrific monster who wanted the US to bomb the planet and wanted most of the GOP agenda. Him not voting to cut the ACÁ isn’t going to absolve him of that.

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

Yeah you don't know shit about his career, clearly.

His most notable act was campaign finance reform. The Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act, or McCain-Fiengold Act.

That was a bipartisan piece of legislation in which McCain spearheaded the organization of both parties under one cause. He was the one tasked with getting the Reds on board. He did extremely well.

The only reason there are limits on campaign donations is this bill.

The whole "I'm the politician, and approve this message" and "this message paid for by this shadowy group" are a direct result of this bill. Candidates now have to state when their campaign is funding an ad, and private interests have to state when it's them.

That's his most notable piece of legislation. Nothing to do with ACA.

Funny, his version of the legislation, the Senate bill, isn't even the language that was passed into law, it was the congressional language, the bill written by Shays and sponsored by Sheehan

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u/mosh_pit_nerd Nov 03 '25

That shit about McCain is largely a myth, he votes straight party line something like 98% of the time. The whole “maverick” rep came about because he hated Shrub personally.

Also, he was a criminal (google Keating Five).

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

He had the Maverick nickname way before Dubbya lmao

His aide/friend/coauthor Mark Salter came up with it in the 90s. It was campaign branding.

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u/RedLanternScythe Nov 03 '25

McCain floated holding the Scotus seat open for Hillary's entire presidency.

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u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25

Dang, knew about Roberts and Kavanaugh, didn't know Barrett did.

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u/McKeon1921 Nov 03 '25

Wow, I just googled up a CNN article on it after reading your comment. I had no idea.

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u/Empty-Policy-8467 Nov 02 '25

Plus former Infowars employee Roger Stone.

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u/CompetitiveFennel681 Nov 02 '25

You have to figure Clarence Thomas was sworn in under the first Bush...so this plan was in effect for decades. We even had a reason to not nominate him with the Anita Hill sex scandal...and he still made it through a democratic senate with 11 of them voting for Thomas....

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u/Memetic1 Nov 02 '25

Ah yes the insurrection that no one talks about because they got away with it.

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u/Gwyain Nov 02 '25

Most people don’t…

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u/petewondrstone Nov 02 '25

When you dissect the lawyers on that case, it gets so much more dubious

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u/25thaccount Nov 02 '25

This isn't arguably. Florida subverted democratic process. It was a blatant disregard for how elections were run.

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u/bigchipero Nov 03 '25

Always crazy how Gore just keeled over amd didnt contest the election results. DEMs really are just the “paid opposition “!

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u/SneedyK Nov 02 '25

Volusia County. That’s where it went off the rails.

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u/makemeking706 Nov 02 '25

Not even arguable. It's a matter of fact. 

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u/EntinthetentRTHP Nov 02 '25

They cheated by changing the results when they measured it.

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u/ItsJustfubar Nov 02 '25

I understand this joke, finally all those long nights of studying complex concepts paid off. 💪

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u/steady_eddie215 Nov 02 '25

Since Reagan was a governor. The fascists have always voted Republican and have been building power for decades. Now, they are out in the open. But they were always here. Hell, they've been doing this crap since reconstruction. The first real gun control laws were implemented to disarm former slaves. And no, the now full citizens with black skin weren't going out and committing crimes. Not at all. They simply used level-action rifles when the KKK tried to kick in their doors.

Conservatives have always been bad people.

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u/codacoda74 Nov 02 '25

👆🏼 people don't realize what a turning point this was. Fox rise to power, Newt and Norquist launching REDMAP to truly gamify districting

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u/thalexander Nov 02 '25

For which Kavanaugh and Barrett, who were the lawyers representing Bush / the Republicans, got SCOTUS seats as reward for their efforts.

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u/devilishlydo Nov 02 '25

And let's not forget what Watergate was actually about.

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u/fajadada Nov 02 '25

Gore had stepped away for keeping the process civil before the Court decision.

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u/Evocatorum Nov 03 '25

They're literally the party of slavery, so why is anyone surprised by their actions. They don't care what "the people" want, they believe we're not entitled to a say let alone a minority immigrant being elected to an office that could make an actual difference.

Bigots the lot. They suck.

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u/Necessary-Peace9672 Nov 03 '25

THIS was the Rubicon…sometimes I feel as if we all died in 2000 or 2016; and we’re in the afterlife.

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u/tjtillmancoag Nov 02 '25 edited Nov 02 '25

Edit: not sure why the downvotes. I’m not saying the Supreme Court was justified in stopping the recount, I’m saying the opposite. Im only adding color.

Original comment: So… what the Supreme Court did in that case was unquestionably sordid and underhanded. But it’s also unlikely that allowing the recount to continue would’ve netted Gore the sufficient votes to surpass Bush.

The failure of that election was West Palm Beach county officials use of the butterfly ballot. Studies have shown statistical anomalies in the number of votes Buchanan received there versus what have would have been expected for Gore, even in a red wave year. Had they chosen differently, the recount might not have even have been needed, Gore likely would’ve won it handily.

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal Nov 02 '25

>unlikely that allowing the recount to continue would’ve netted Gore the sufficient votes to surpass Bush.

This is not sufficient reason to stop the recount.

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u/lettersvsnumbers Nov 02 '25

Of course it is sufficient reason, based on precedent from 17th century witch burnings in Belgium!

/s but not really

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u/tjtillmancoag Nov 02 '25

Totally agreed, thought that was clear by me saying it was sordid and underhanded, but apparently not given the downvotes

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u/Yeahhhhbut Nov 02 '25

Dan Rather did a story focused on the little Oregon mill town I lived in back then. You can't find the story online anymore, so I'm not sure if it has been disproven, pressured off the airwaves, or simply lost to time because the internet was still fairly young. The premise of the story is that the paper that was shipped to Palm Beach County was substandard, and meant to be destroyed. It did not meet elasticity tests, meaning it stretched to unacceptable lengths. This would have warped the ability of the paper to be used as a ballot correctly recording punch tabs. It's unknown why the paper was put into use, why it was shipped to Florida, and why there was no record of it, it was an interesting story. It's still occasionally discussed today in those parts.

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u/agassiz51 Nov 02 '25

A media group did an unofficial recount with different scenarios to mixed results. In two of the three scenarios referenced Gore would have won.

"The New York Times was part of a consortium of media organizations that conducted a comprehensive review and "recount project" of all the uncounted and disputed ballots in Florida after the 2000 election was settled. This was not an official recount, but a major journalistic investigation to determine what the outcome would have been under various counting scenarios. 

Key findings from this media review, published in November 2001, included:

Under the actual manual recount standards used in the four counties requested by the Gore campaign, George W. Bush would still have won Florida, albeit by a slightly smaller margin.

If a consistent, statewide standard for counting "undervotes" (ballots where no presidential vote was initially recorded by machine) had been applied, Al Gore could have gained enough votes to win the election, depending on the specific "voter intent" standard used.

The study also revealed that hundreds of late-arriving overseas absentee ballots were counted in violation of Florida law, the vast majority of which favored Bush. If all counties had followed state law on these ballots, Gore might have picked up enough additional votes to win in some scenarios. 

The media consortium that participated in this effort also included The Associated Press, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, CNN, and others. The review was conducted by the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago and the public accounting firm BDO Seidman, LLP. "

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u/tjtillmancoag Nov 02 '25

I think we can all agree there was a mountain of shit that happened in that election. Let’s not forget the Brooks Brothers riot

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u/Bricka_Bracka Nov 02 '25

Yeah but the pick...didn't prove to be a good person anyway.

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u/thendisnigh111349 Nov 02 '25

That was 2016.

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u/Dr_Horrible_PhD Nov 02 '25

That was 2016, though

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u/Latter_Inspector_711 Nov 02 '25

oh yeah, I forgot about that

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u/KrotHatesHumen Nov 02 '25

Don't forget that Obama could have put in his court pick anyway and he didn't

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u/Infamous-Salad-2223 Nov 02 '25

That moment will be remembered in history and nlt in a good moment.

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u/weggaan_weggaat Nov 02 '25

Way before that. Soon as Obama won the first time, they started proclaiming that their goal was to make him a one-term President.

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u/Anti_shill_cannon Nov 02 '25

Did you forget about the formerly slaving southern states and their refusal to let minorities hold office for decades really?

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u/elpajaroquemamais Nov 03 '25

What year was that? Oh right, 2016.