Trump and his minions are scrambling for a way to throw the election into the courts with claims of widespread fraud.
This is a revised version of a cartoon that I drew earlier when Justice Antonin Scalia died.
This wouldn’t be the first time for the Supreme Court to decide to give the presidential election of a Republican. Back in 2000 the decision came as a blow to Al Gore.
The 5-4 court decision was pretty outrageous. This could be the second time a partisan court decides to stop a vote count (or re-count) and decide the winner, if Trump has his way.
At that time I was a regular, local, daily cartoonist for Gannett’s Honolulu Advertiser newspaper in Hawaii. On the day that the Supreme Court decided to make George W. Bush president, I drew this cartoon that my newspaper refused to print.
I defaced the justices who voted to make George W. Bush president. I was pretty angry that day.
Anything can happen. It already has.
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