Posted on 10/21/2020 11:14:48 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Supreme Court advises that judges should not change state and county election rules right before an election, a Cincinnati-based appeals court has reminded a lower court.
The Ohio case, like others this election season, involves the use of ballot “drop boxes” and restrictions that officials may put on them while attempting to maintain the integrity of state elections.
In a split decision, 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Richard Griffin, writing for himself and Judge Amul Thapar, said: “The Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter election rules on the eve of an election.”
Why did District Court Judge Dan Polster, a Clinton appointee, need the Oct. 9 reminder from the 6th Circuit panel?
Because, as Griffin put it, “Here, the district court went a step further and altered election rules during an election.”
Here’s what happened.
Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose issued a directive that allowed ballot drop boxes to be placed only in a county’s election office in secured, monitored settings.
LaRose reasoned that under Ohio law, an absentee ballot could be returned only by mail or by “personally deliver[ing] it to the [election] director.”
In LaRose’s view, this last requirement meant that any drop box had to be located at a county’s election board office.
Polster disagreed, issuing what some called a “scathing decision” that required LaRose to allow drop boxes at additional locations. In the process, the district court judge summarily rebuffed concerns about election fraud, saying that LaRose “has not advanced any legitimate reason to prohibit a county board of elections from utilizing off-site drop boxes and/or off-site delivery of ballots to staff.”
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I predict all kinds of actions will be done to throw the election into total confusion. A requirement in Color Revolutions. And the confusion cannot be undone.
No, once we get the SC settled we will knock down these unconstitutional changes.
“The Supreme Court advises that judges should not change state and county election rules right before an election, a Cincinnati-based appeals court has reminded a lower court.”
nonetheless, the 4th circuit court of appeals has chosen to ignore this advise in North Carolina ...
Nov. 5 will be a total sh*tshow by design.
Bush vs. Gore 2000 - Supreme Court shut down the Florida recount, and specifically stated that Judges do not have the authority to re-write election law, that it is the job of the State Legislature to write election law.
Judge Amul Thapar, said: “The Supreme Court has repeatedly emphasized that lower federal courts should ordinarily not alter election rules on the eve of an election.”
So any votes cast before any ACB SC hearing will be subject the rules established at the time of the vote?
So how exactly will the ACB court not be irrelevant? People are voting now.
But our current SC said that once a vote is cast under a Judges re-written election law, that vote is subject to those laws.
Except Justice Roberts who can do anything the Gay Mafia tells him.
That makes no sense at all. By saying that, they've nulled and voided the 2000 decision. How does that happen?
Monday ACB will be voted out of the Senate. She will be sworn in and the SCOTUS will be ready to accept cases as a full court.
Tuesday the NC Republicans will appeal this decision to the SCOTUS and request an emergency stay.
Roberts will vote with the socialist on the Court again and this time lose 5-4.
And then the Democrats efforts will fail once again.
Right, but didn’t Roberts just go against his own courts previous ruling?
“Right, but didn’t Roberts just go against his own courts previous ruling?”
i think that might be correct ... pennsylvania case ...
And Arizona. They have changed the rules this month to the benefit of the Left.
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