[rxsid]

PING!

Look who's baaaacckk.

SCOTUS 9-0: Election Day Is One Single Day. Listen to oral argument from Foster v. Love (1997)

[RummyChick]

Where is the link to listen?

Here is one

https://www.oyez.org/cases/1997/96-670

[Frapster]

Great find - it has been my opinion that SCOTUS will rule 5-4 in favor of TX or 9-0 in favor of Texas. The delay in telling the outcome today could be SCOTUS debate or, if the decision were made earlier today, government prepping and positioning for potential riots.

[Fai Mao]

Oh, this is delicious.

[Jim Hill]

Won’t the defense simply argue that the votes were cast on (or before) election day, but only that the administrative act of counting the votes wasn’t completed on that day?

[ClearCase_guy]

[jersey117]

Excellent find. Was this case cited in the Texas brief?

[drypowder]

But Democrats don’t give a damned about laws, especially our Constitution unless it serves their purpose tp achieve their end goals. Activist judges and social democrats need to start paying a personal price for their anti-Americanism dictates if this country is to survive as a Constitutional Republic!

[bantam]

Bookmarked-—VERY compelling argument for NO post-election day votes to count!!!!!!!!!!

[ETCM]

This is a huge stretch, and the opinion is being taken way out of context. Louisiana was effectively holding a GENERAL ELECTION in OCTOBER. SCOTUS said you must hold the General Election on the defined day for Federal Elections. Nobody is going to argue that early voting, vote by mail, etc was or is illegal, nor that counting has to be complete by midnight. The opinion opens with the simple statement:

"Under 2 U. S. C. §§ 1 and 7, the Tuesday after the first Monday in November in an even-numbered year "is established" as the date for federal congressional elections. Louisiana's "open primary" statute provides an opportunity to fill the offices of United States Senator and Representative during the previous month, without any action to be taken on federal election day. The issue before us is whether such an ostensible election runs afoul of the federal statute. We hold that it does."

Louisiana complied with the ruling by moving it's runoff to December, after holding their General Election on the federally mandated Tuesday in November.

People should read the actual decision. It's not a complex or difficult read.

https://www.leagle.com/decision/1997589522us671584

[Brian Griffin]

The “election” of constitutional interest is Monday I believe.

The people of PA and other states just made suggestions November 3rd and the weeks before.

[kevinm13]

Makes sense. Laws need to be followed.

Trump wins in a landslide.

[Brian Griffin]

The Founding Fathers envisioned legislatures doing the voting.

The legislatures now normally go along with citizen suggestions, but legislatures have the final say just in case the majority of voters in a state choose a bad dude.

[Brian Griffin]

The Founding Fathers envisioned legislatures doing the voting.

The legislatures now normally go along with citizen suggestions, but legislatures have the final say just in case the majority of voters in a state choose a bad dude.

[tired&retired]

Thanks for sharing this very important case.

[rxsid]

Ping!

SCOTUS 9-0: Election Day Is One Single Day. Listen to oral argument from Foster v. Love (1997)

And further explanation in post #16.

[RobertoinAL]

Just hearing the SC has thrown out the Texas case - lack of standing.

[entropy12]

Greg Kelly on Newsmax keeps repeating this is not over, and he sites the suitess in PA, GA etc as still active.

[entropy12]

Greg Kelly on Newsmax keeps repeating this is not over, and he sites the suitess in PA, GA etc as still active.