If you believe that .....
7000 petitions a year.
Despite popular belief ‘distributed for conference’ does not mandate a vote.
You are expecting the scotus to rule for the first time on an ambitious issue in a way that overturns an election.
Even if, and that is a big if, the results are thrown out the perceived pettiness of the case will sink our chances for decades.
We might as well congratulate ourselves, throw a big party and then start from scratch trying to win elections.
Justice Thomas is the most deliberative on the court. He would have had strong reason to reject it our of hand, had he not believed (and actually known) that the case is valid.
"You are expecting the scotus to rule for the first time on an ambitious issue in a way that overturns an election."
That is the view of an extreme leftist. Its not an 'ambitious' issue; it is one of the most critical issues to confront the court: the usurpation of the election, and the constitution, by an arrogant and disrespectful alien that illegally got elected to the Senate, and now seeks the highest office in the land, utterly without discernable qualifications.
Bryer is the only judge that I can say with confidence will vote with the usurper.