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To: Cboldt; All
"The other is state legislature decide how to choose electors. SCOTUS just decides to not pierce that veil."

Thanks for reply.

Based on conflicts between original colonies, the delegates to the Constitution Convention gave conflicted states unrestricted access to the Supremes as a last resort to try to resolve conflicts that could lead to war between the states.

§ 1675. "Before the revolution, controversies between the colonies, concerning the extent of their rights of soil, territory, jurisdiction, and boundary, under their respective charters, were heard and determined before the king in council, who exercised original jurisdiction therein, upon the principles of feudal sovereignty. This jurisdiction was often practically asserted, as in the case of the dispute between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, decided by the privy council, in 1679; and in the case of the dispute between New Hampshire and New York, in 1764. Lord Hardwicke recognised this appellate jurisdiction in the most deliberate manner, in the great case of Penn v. Lord Baltimore. The same necessity, which gave rise to it in our colonial state, must continue to operate through all future time. Some tribunal, exercising such authority, is essential to prevent an appeal to the sword, and a dissolution of the government [emphasis added]. That it ought to be established under the national, rather than under the state, government; or, to speak more properly, that it can be safely established under the former only, would seem to be a position self-evident, and requiring no reasoning to support it. It may justly be presumed, that under the national government in all controversies of this sort, the decision will be impartially made according to the principles of justice; and all the usual and most effectual precautions are taken to secure this impartiality, by confiding it to the highest judicial tribunal." —Justice Joseph Story, Article 3, Section 2, Clause 1, Commentaries on the Constitution 3,1833, The University of Chicago Press.

So by refusing to consider Texas’s evidence of alleged electoral vote manipulation in another state, the misguided Roberts Court has arguably helped to increase tension between conflicted states imo, as opposed to trying to help calm down the states to promote domestic tranquility insured in the Preamble to the Constitution.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility [emphasis added], provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

255 posted on 12/15/2020 10:33:13 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility [emphasis added], provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

Since the Constitution was drafted secretly by the elites, and was in fact illegal under the Articles of Confederation, the preamble was just so much propaganda for the counter revolution. Take it seriously at your peril. For all of the adulation for the Federalist Society, the Bill of Rights was an afterthought for them, drafted ex post facto. It was the Anti-Federalists who represented civil liberties and justice. Their arguments echo through out American history.
257 posted on 12/15/2020 2:21:03 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Amendment10

I view SCOTUS and Congress as utterly failed, intellectually corrupt institutions. They are a net harm to the public, and feathering their own nests while asserting power they have usurped in bad faith.


258 posted on 12/15/2020 2:45:40 PM PST by Cboldt
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