I think I agree with a lot of folks I've seen online: maybe the big endgame for the Repubs here is voter disenfranchisement. They know that they will lose in their seditious behavior in Congress this week, but are hoping to lay the groundwork for "reforms" to address the nonexistent ''irregularities" that they have created in their QAnon alternate universe. The easiest way to not lose Georgia and other states again is to make sure that certain voters not be allowed to vote again.
The Courts have come out of this looking pretty good. But never forget that the Courts--and SCOTUS in particular--are not opposed to voter suppression. They just aren't allowing this kind of voter suppression, i.e., after-the-fact throwing out of votes. They will be more than eager to be complicit in more "respectable" forms of disenfranchisement and suppression. Indeed, they have a long and consistent track record of doing exactly that.
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