Posted on 02/06/2021 4:45:46 AM PST by EyesOfTX
No one should be too excited about this bit of DC Swamp Kabuki Theater.
Your case is basically moot now? Ok, let’s get it on the docket for consideration! – Now that the DC Swamp’s sock puppet, China Joe Biden, has been installed safely in the Oval Office and surrounded by a National Guard security perimeter, the Washington Examiner reports that the Supreme Court has finally agreed to consider hearing some election challenge cases that would have been rip two months ago.
Now? Not so much.
Regardless, the Court has agreed to “consider” whether or not to hear the Pennsylvania election case, Sidney Powell’s Michigan election case, and Lin Wood’s Georgia election case.
From the story at the Washington Examiner:
The Supreme Court on Friday listed several high-profile election lawsuits for consideration at its mid-February conference.
The cases include challenges to the 2020 election from Trump-aligned lawyers Lin Wood and Sidney Powell, as well as Republican Rep. Mike Kelly’s Pennsylvania lawsuit. Nearly every lawsuit takes issue with the expanded use of mail-in ballots by many states.
The decision came after the court declined to fast-track all election-related litigation in early January.
In nearly every plea for expedition, lawyers backing former President Donald Trump told the court that if the cases were not heard before President Biden’s inauguration, their success would be unlikely.
But after the court pushed them off, many lawyers said that the challenges were still important and could have long-term implications for election fairness. Trump lawyer John Eastman told the Washington Examiner that even with Trump out of office, it was important to settle the issues raised by expanded mail-in voting.
“Our legal issue,” he said, referring to the way in which Pennsylvania conducted the 2020 election, “remains important and in need of the court’s review.”
Similarly, Kelly’s lawyer Greg Teufel, told the Washington Examiner after the court refused to hear his case before the inauguration that the 10-year congressman and major Trump ally had no intention of dropping the suit.
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But don’t get your hopes up: It is highly likely the Court will find some technicality or procedural grounds for refusing to actually agree to hear any of these cases, since it became clear during November and December that it can dig up a rationale for refusing to hear any case it doesn’t want to hear, regardless of the merits involved. There is no question, for example, that the Pennsylvania case clearly involved a blatant violation of the constitution by the Pennsylvania legislature and courts, and deserved to be fast tracked, but the Court dummied up a reason not to hear it in a timely manner nonetheless.
Even if the Court should deign to hear one of the cases just to try to make it look as if it is diligently trying to do its job – which is plainly has not been doing – that case or cases will not be heard until next October.
Bottom line, this is all just another bit of DC Swamp Kabuki Theater, a farce acted out for the benefit of the corrupt news media, which will in turn heap praise on “system” for “working.”
But the system is rigged, and we all know it. As George Carlin used to famously tell us, it’s a big club and we aren’t in it.
That is all.
instead of taking the case at correct time,
SCOTUS involved itself with continuing it WAR on AMERICANS.
SCOTUS <=== where baby rape is as acceptable
as an Order from Malta.
They’ll hear the cases AFTER they’ve packed the court.
Re: baby rape - Oh, please grow up.
Stop ‘jackassin and provide evidence.
This one was particularly egregious and surprised me as it was a Supreme who ordered PA to keep the late/fraud ballots segregated from the ones that arrived onetime and somewhat legally.
And they will rule it’s moot point, and set precedent in the future for running out the clock.
Moot, my a$$.
“Hey, it was fraudulent after all.”
“Too bad, Biden’s already in.”
Nope. Doesn’t work like that.
I doubt they hear them. And if the dems think they might hear it and can’t control the SCOTUS then they will threaten or actually pack the court.
How does it work? What do you think would happen?
Sincere questions, I'm curious...
By the time the SCOTUS actually does their job, Liberals will have further stacked the deck to smack down any court opinions
I can’t think of how the deck could be stacked any further against the Liberals’ opposition...and I already dread even considering it
“ How does it work? What do you think would happen?”
We are in uncharted territory. If it is proved that the election was fraudulent to the extent that it was, then the results have to be thrown out or we riot. Biden is null and void. At best Trump is declared the rightful President. At worst the results are thrown out and we have another election. Worse, still, we have to actually physically fight those on the left who refuse to accept the results. I fear the latter is the likely result. We can not accept the fraud just to keep the peace like some cowardly judges have done. This isn’t a game.
Traitor Roberts wants to rub our faces in it.
Imagine being a branch of government where every time the so called Executive Branch wants you to rule their way, they threaten to stack your court so the executive will get the verdict they desire?
This is where the government is at. It’s called coercion. Blackmail. Tyranny.
Just like MAO, STALIN and HITLER.
All because they were able to steal and cheat an election.
God Almighty is watching every move they make. It will not end well for the cheaters.
Barrett, Kavanagh and Gorsuch will forever bear the shame of siding with America’s traitors, and the destruction of America that is sure to follow. Cowards all.
“Bottom line, this is all just another bit of DC Swamp Kabuki Theater, a farce acted out for the benefit of the corrupt news media, which will in turn heap praise on “system” for “working.””
This.
Kavanaugh, Gorsuch and Barrett had their chance moment with destiny.They were too timid to execute. Thomas and Alito had courage but no support. The Supreme Court failed the nation.
There are two rules which have been used to thwart election fraud cases even being presented in a court.
If the case is presented before the election, then it is thrown out on the basis of there being no harm to the plaintiff.
If the case is presented after the election, the case is thrown out as moot because the case was presented too late to do anything about the problem.
This is probably a stretch, but consider... the Supreme Court could hear the case this fall and render an opinion the Pennsylvania and Michigan contests were “unconstitutional”. If you strip away the Electoral College votes from Biden for these two states, he will fall below the required 270 votes for election.
This would require Biden/Harris to be removed from office.
But, before we start doing a happy dance, what could the Courts remedy be?
If the election in Pennsylvania and Michigan are tainted then no EC votes from those states are able to be awarded and Trump still doesn’t have the necessary 270 EC votes.
There is, however, by the Courts reasoning a Constitutional remedy already in place.
The next in line to Presidential succession is: Speaker of the House. This would be a Constitutional way to resolve the issue until the next Presidential election. So Pelosi could wind up as President and the Dems still control Congress and the Executive.
Far-fetched...sure, but as crazy as the Robert’s Court has been, not outside the realm of possibility.
My bet is that all 3 Trump appointees will join the left and vote against hearing the cases. I believe that they are very weak people who will easily cave to threats.
They used delay to make it moot—and will dismiss it for no longer having relevance.
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