It’s not like this was a secret or something you couldn’t have figured out for yourself, still it’s sort of revealing when Democrats say the quiet part out loud. I’m talking specifically about a new Thomas Edsall column in the NY Times titled “‘This Could Well Be Game Over.'” The game in this case is the 2024 election and the over refers to Joe Biden’s chances of winning it if Donald Trump isn’t convicted of a serious crime prior to November.
“Early on, I called the federal election subversion case potentially the most important case in this nation’s history,” Richard L. Hasen, a law professor at U.C.L.A., wrote on his Election Law Blog. “And now it may not happen because of timing, timing that is completely in the Supreme Court’s control. This could well be game over.”
Whether or not the trials are held before the election is crucial to the outcome, for at least two…
