[White Lives Matter]

This is Amy Coney Barrett's district court.

[georgiarat]

Yes.

[tennmountainman]

Onward to the SC.

[TakebackGOP]

They wouldn’t be six days late if they were postmarked on Election Day.

[InterceptPoint]

This is Amy Coney Barrett’s district court.
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Yes. So we can be pretty sure where one of those Stay Votes came from.

[curious7]

fta: “No rational given” - how about because the constitution says the legislature determines the details of elections, and the court is trying to usurp the state legislature’s authority? Or because the court was trying to make law instead of apply the law?

[Roadrunner383]

Back in the Gore/Bush contest in Fla, the U.S. Supreme Ct ruled 7-2 that State Law took precedence as far as vote counting and deadlines. I expect a lot of the rulings by courts extending deadlines to be overturned before the election.

Quoting from the Federalist Society: “... it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be.”

[Repeal 16-17]

Was ACB part of the panel that granted the stay?

[faithhopecharity]

The date for presidential elections is set by the US constitution. Article 2 Section 1 provides that the state legislature directs how presidential electors are appointed by that state —- the state legislature not the courts. The courts may not write the rules for selection of presidential electors

[windsorknot]

More legislation from the judiciary.

[jstolzen]

Can someone net out what this ultimately means? Will WI now be able to “count” votes received up to 6 days after election day or not as a result of the 7th Circuit ruling?

Wording seems ambiguous to me..

[chuckee]

Now, we need tp do the same in Pa which has already been appealed and Michigan

[Political Junkie Too]

Look at the timeline of the vote in 2000 in Florida (Electoral College safe harbor date is December 12, meets on December 18):

• November 7, 2000 - Election Day
• November 14, 2000 - Deadline for certifying the election.
• November 15, 2000
  • Broward and Dade counties ignore deadline and continue manual recounting.
  • Florida state Supreme Court denies petitions to stop recounts after deadline.
  • Florida Secretary of State announces she will not include further returns from the counties.
• November 16, 2000
  • Gore campaign files a challenge to the certified results.
  • Florida Supreme Court allows West Palm Beach to continue manual recounts.
• November 17, 2000 - Florida Supreme Court bars Secretary of State from certifying the election "until further order of the court."
• November 20, 2000 - Florida Supreme Court hears arguments regarding inclusion of hand-recounted ballots.
• November 21, 2000 - Florida Supreme Court rules manual recounts can continue.
• November 22, 2000 - Bush campaign files in federal court for review of Florida Supreme Court ruling.
• November 23, 2000 - Gore campaign files in Florida Supreme Court to force Dade county to continue recounts. Court denies request.
• November 24, 2000 - US Supreme Court agrees to hear case.
• November 26, 2000 - Florida Secretary of State certifies election.
• November 27, 2000 - Gore campaign files to contest the Florida election.
• December 1, 2000 - US Supreme Court hears oral arguments.
• December 2, 2000 - Florida Circuit Court begins election contest trial.
• December 4, 2000
  • US Supreme Court vacates Florida Supreme Court decision.
  • Florida Circuit Court rules against Gore campaign.
• December 7, 2000
  • Florida Supreme Court hears appeal of Florida Circuit Court ruling.
  • Florida legislature issues proclamation calling for special session to consider appointing Electors.
• December 8, 2000
  • Florida Supreme Court reverses Circuit Court ruling against Gore campaign.
  • Bush campaign seeks stay of Florida Supreme Court ruling.
  • Florida legislature meets in special session and adjourns to meet again on December 12.
• December 9, 2000
  • Florida begins manual recount of "undervote" ballots.
  • Florida Supreme Court denies Bush campaign request for stay of order.
  • US Supreme Court issues stay to stop manual recounts.
• December 11, 2000 - US Supreme Court hears oral arguments on Florida recount.
• December 12, 2000
  • Florida legislature meets and approves 25 Electors pledged to Bush.
  • US Supreme Court issues ruling: 7-2 to overturn Florida Supreme Court ruling on recounts, saying that recounts must be statewide for "equal protection;" 5-4 that remedies not possible by deadlines.
• December 13, 2000 - Gore campaign concedes Florida election, declares Bush the winner.
• December 18, 2000 - Electoral College meets and selects George W. Bush as President.

Now, shift that timeline by another 6-9 days due to pushing out the return of "mail-in" ballots. That is the chaos that Democrats want to inject into the 2020 election in at least five states.

Article II Section 1:

“The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.”

The clause in Article II Section 1 mandating the Electoral College meet on the same day is what ultimately prevents this from spilling over into the new year. The Electoral College will meet whether these states participate or not. If they do not participate due to self-inflicted delays, the 270 vote threshold for majority will be reduced by half the Electoral votes of the states that fail to participate.

-PJ

[Nifster]

Good

[Vaduz]

If received up to 6 days later.

Guess what won’t make it on time rigging gone bad.

[ALPAPilot]

Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress:

[Brilliant]

They are going to let the state courts decide this.

[impactplayer]

getting hold of a post mark stamp from a union member - not that tough. Post Marking enough to make up the difference - piece of cake.

[JohnBovenmyer]

If it reached her at the Supreme Court she’d recuse, but at worst the 4-4 (libs+Roberts) decision would sustain her appellate decision.

[Just mythoughts]

Do not these judges take an oath to protect and defend our Constitution? The lot ought to be impeached, but, ‘holy’ Nancy owns the peoples house.

[lastchance]

“7th Circuit stays district court injunction allowing Wisconsin ballots postmarked by Election Day to be counted if received up to 6 days later.”

Why just 6 days? Why even have an Election Day? Just keep counting ballots for however long it takes to put Biden in the President’s seat.