Someone was almost certainly lying about what the Supreme Court was (and wasn’t) up to.
Someone was deliberately overstating the chances of Supreme Court intervention, and was doing so to galvanize continuing resistance, peaceful or otherwise, to the joint session.the details of an e-mail Eastman sent on Dec. 24, in which he encouraged Trump campaign officials to file papers in a Wisconsin appeal in an effort to get the Supreme Court to intervene.
This e-mail is not the first example of Eastman holding out the possibility of Supreme Court intervention in supporting efforts to block the Jan. 6 joint session. Indeed,, Eastman’s speech at the rally preceding the violence at the Capitol alluded to ongoing litigation as another reason why Congress should, at the very least, delay the certification .
There’s just one problem: Long before Jan. 6 — and certainly by Dec. 24 — it would have been clear to anyone who follows the Supreme Court, Eastman included, that there was precisely zero chance that the justices would intervene. By representing that “there is a heated fight underway,” Eastman was either lying, or was repeating information relayed to him that was itself a lie.
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