Key quotes from the Hill:
“The Electoral College votes and those are sent to Congress and they declare a winner and then the president becomes president on Jan. 20,” said Mark Braden, an elections lawyer who spent 10 years as chief counsel for the Republican National Committee. “And guess what? The new president is commander in chief, so everyone in the executive branch works for him. If they have to carry the president out in a chair, they will, because if Congress reviews the electoral votes and decides that Biden wins, then it doesn’t matter what Trump thinks or does. The government will be run by Biden.”…
Conservative elections attorney Jim Bopp told The Hill that it would be as simple as getting a judge to issue a “quo warranto” common law action, which effectively determines that a one-time guest has become a trespasser.
“It’s totally absurd to discuss, but you would just get a court order to have him removed,” Bopp said. “It’s that simple. If a person violates the court order, they’re in contempt of court and subject to civil or criminal contempt, so there’s a quick and easy legal remedy in case this preposterous event takes place.”…
“No doubt the Trump base will stick with him, and will forever believe that Pelosi, Schumer, Shifty Schiff and Hunter Biden conspired with China and Russia to flood the American electoral system with phony ballots that swung the election to Biden,” said one Republican elections lawyer who requested anonymity to speak candidly.
“But everyone in official Washington will abandon him. Pence, the entire cabinet, the RNC, every GOP senator, all but maybe a handful of GOP representatives, all of his political appointees… Most lawyers will refuse to represent him – including government lawyers who will resign before advancing his positions in court. The other two branches of government will put an end to this… The judicial system in particular will have zero patience for this and its destabilizing effect on public order. And Trump himself does not want to be frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs — like a dog — so he’ll eventually go too. With a huge stink, but not an ounce of fight.”