If he loses in November, Donald Trump could look to the Supreme Court to resuscitate his presidency
[the election] will end up in the Supreme Court”, Donald Trump said on September 23rd, a forecast he reiterated during his debate with Joe Biden on September 29th. It is “very important that we have nine justices” in place before the election, Mr Trump said, and he is “counting” on them to “look at the ballots”.
Yet if Mr Trump appears to be losing on election day, or if he is winning before the expected deluge of postal ballots is counted—“we might not know for months” who wins, he lamented at the debate—the president seems determined to continue his campaign in court. In order to challenge “fraud like you’ve never seen”, Mr Trump is primed to line up lawyers to try to stop vote-counting in states where he holds provisional leads.
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