it happened a lot in many states. in order to get a mail in vote thing, by law the citizen was suppose to request it. but, due to covid, many governors sent out those mail in vote things, to everyone or a lot of people. they technically broke the law by doing this.
This is correct. It wasn't always governors though. Many times secretaries of state acted alone. Other times it was done via friendly lawsuits. A citizen sues the government to change the election protocol and the government (who wanted to do it but was too afraid) told the judge "whoops I guess I have no good arguments, order me daddy!"
It would take an extraordinarily brave judge to say "the plaintiff isn't allowed to sue the defendant to change/break the law"
A similar trick was done for the children of illegal immigrants. The supreme court ruled that when the government creates a program (even if only by executive order) an entitlement may be created and future governments may not reneg.
That could be abused to absurd ends (to create unrepealable law via executive fiat) and probably will be as the lawfare front widens. Just imagine what kind of entitlements Trump could spawn.
the most i've seen as far as a fair counter to this, was the republicans should have challenged this in court, and that that was their legal recourse whether they did or didn't.
If that's the best counter it's a bad one since many attempts to challenge these changes were made and the judges always ruled "Hey, you have to have injury in fact, come back when something bad has actually happened"
So apparently there was a single instant in time when you can sue over violations of election law. Some say that the left-tribe is opening a pandora's box, but they aren't. All that matters is how partisan the judges are. Right-tribe judges will follow precedent even to the detriment of the right-tribe. Left-tribe judges will simply throw out anything that is inconvenient at the time.
i ain't a trumpanzee either, and most of trumpanzee ideas are baseless conspiracy theories...
You just explained one of the bases.