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To: The MAGA-Deplorian
I don't disagree with you, but the enforcement mechanism for those blatant violations should be the state legislatures, not a Federal court.

A better precedent for the author of this piece would have been the infamous U.S. Senate election in New Jersey in 2002. In that fiasco, the incumbent Democrat (Robert Torricelli) was mired in a political corruption scandal and seemed likely to lose in the general election to his Republican challenger. So the Democratic Party in New Jersey (which happened to control the state legislature and the governor's office at the time) decided to replace him on the ballot with the previously-retired fossil Frank Lautenberg after the ballot deadline established under state law had passed.

The Republican Party filed suit in Federal court to overturn this, and the U.S. Supreme Court refused to take the case. Antonin Scalia wrote the Court's explanation for this refusal. He said the move may have been totally illegal under New Jersey law, but because it didn't involve any violation of Federal election laws or civil/voting rights protections under Federal law, there was no reason for a Federal court to get involved in this process.

His message to the people of New Jersey was simple: "If these are the kinds of @ssholes you want in your state government, then either YOU deal with them or just shut the hell up."

30 posted on 03/31/2021 8:24:38 AM PDT by Alberta's Child ("And once in a night I dreamed you were there; I canceled my flight from going nowhere.")
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To: Alberta's Child

Honestly Alberta, I’m looking at this from the Constitutional aspect on who has the sole power to write election laws. If SCOTUS had heard the cases and it ment votes thrown out, so be it. As it is now State legislators are passing bills on mail in ballots, voter ID and voter registration in the states that violated initial law. So the $64,000 question is, since democraps know SCOTUS is too gutless to defends state legislatures right to enact voting law, what prevents a democrap governor and Sec State from repeating it over and over say 2022 and 2024?


31 posted on 03/31/2021 8:35:57 AM PDT by The MAGA-Deplorian (Democrats are lawless because Republicans are ball-less!)
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