The Revenge of Clarence Thomas -- Bush v. Gore and the Facts Underlying The Pennsylvania Court Cases

Redstate ^ | November 11 2020 | Shipwreckedcrew

[SmokingJoe]

In the coming days, we will learn whether the Supreme Court will consider the merits of a Petition filed by the Republican Party of Pennsylvania to overturn a Pennsylvania Supreme Court decision that extended by three days the time within which mailed-in ballots in Pennsylvania could be received and counted as validly cast, among other things. The Trump campaign has sought to “intervene” in this case as a “party” by adopting the arguments made by the Petitioners

On Monday, the Trump Campaign and two Pennsylvania voters filed a new lawsuit alleging that the ballot handling processes by which mailed-in ballots were received, pre-canvassed, and canvassed, violated the constitutional rights of Pennsylvania voters in having a fair and accurate tabulation of votes.

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But, what is important to know now is that Justice Thomas was one of the two Justices who joined Chief Justice Rehnquist’s concurrence. Further, the “textualist” view of Constitutional law has gained much ground in the judiciary since 2000. Justices Gorsuch and Barrett are clearly “textualists” in their approach to statutory and constitutional interpretation, and while not quite as clearly defined, Justice Kavanaugh has already written that he has significant issues with what the Pennsylvania Supreme Court did.

If Chief Justice Roberts lines up with the three liberals, and there is a 5-4 vote to overturn the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision, the senior Justice in the majority determines who writes the Court’s Opinion. That would be Justice Thomas, and it is my prediction that in that event he would choose to write the opinion himself.

That is the reason for the headline above — the “Revenge of Clarence Thomas” on Joe Biden.

[Empire_of_Liberty]

I’m sure that the legislature would be much more comfortable being told this than taking the initiative on their own.

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You have an interesting insight, here.

Perhaps “balance of power” has become “balance of blame”. Much of the structure of our government has been based on the presumption that government bodies would jealously guard the powers they hold.

Perhaps that is now faulty thinking, and they would simply rather not be blamed.

[SmokingJoe]

If what I heard yesterday is true - that there were only 10,000 ballots received in PA after election day -

That is what they are now claiming. Like everything else, that figure from the Sec of State in PA are garbage.
In reality, it's over 100,000.
We'll see them at the SCOTUS.

[Hieronymus]

Unfortunately I, and more importantly, Thomas, are against cloning (at least I would assume as a good Catholic he is) so the solution cannot be entertained.

[Svartalfiar]

My impression is that the US Supreme Court could rule that, when the PA Supreme Court struck down the deadline, it also struck down the authorization for mail-in ballots.

Huh, this is the first time I've seen this. That would be awesome! I would hope for the US SC to simply say the State SC was wrong to extend the deadline, but if instead they get rid of the whore mail-in, that would be even better!

[RedStateRocker]

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