Should Donald Trump fail a second time to be re-elected he faces the very real possibility of jail time and massive financial penalties due to the sheer volume of criminal cases and civil lawsuits that are on hold until after the election.

That is the opinion of Syracuse University law professor Greg Germain who explained in an interview with Newsweek that the former president’s only path to get out from under the federal cases he now faces is to beat Vice President Kamala Harris in less than two weeks and then push the Department of Justice to drop the cases filed against him.

As Germain stated, the multiple federal cases Trump is facing are solid and his only path to victory may be having them shut down.

Newsweek source: https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-legal-cases-georgia-washington-florida-new-york-stormy-daniels-chutkan-cannon-1974406

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    12 hours ago

    I acknowledge that the electoral college misrepresents the popular vote, but that is the mechanism by which the will of your voting public is polled.

    That’s not really relevant to my point, which is simply that in a healthy democracy courts need to avoid influencing elections.

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      Letting guilty insurrectionists run for re-election in clear contravention of the constitution isn’t affecting the election in any way in your view?

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        9 hours ago

        I’m struggling to understand what you’re saying.

        Yes the electoral college is shit. That’s not a reason to allow courts to manipulate elections.