Posted on 10/19/2020 8:04:08 PM PDT by Enlightened1
The U.S. Supreme Court rejected a Republican application to stay the decision of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to grant the Democratic Party’s request to make several changes to mail-in voting that critics have decried as vulnerable to fraud.
As Breitbart News reported last month, “The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled … that ballots received three days after Election Day will still be counted — even if there is no evidence they were postmarked on time.”
Republicans sought a stay.
The Supreme Court, however, split 4-4 on the request, leaving the decision of the lower court in place. Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the Court’s liberal minority; the remaining four conservative justices sided with the Republican request.
The Court currently has only eight justices, due to the passing last month of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
President Donald Trump has nominated Judge Amy Coney Barrett to replace Ginsburg.
In an interview with Breitbart News Daily earlier this month, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) pointed out the need to have a ninth judge before the election to decide close election cases.
Cruz said Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s possible confirmation to the Supreme Court would provide the ninth justice needed to avoid a four-four division over post-election legal battles.
“It’s one of the reasons why it is so important that the Senate confirm Judge Barrett, because if the Supreme Court only has eight justices, eight justices can divide four to four,” Cruz noted. “An equally divided court has no authority to decide anything. So if we have this chaos of litigation, if the Supreme Court is equally divided, there is no resolution and we’re in a constitutional crisis.”
Cruz warned, “If the Supreme Court is divided four-four, there is no answer. You just sty in the chaos, and and that’s why I...
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Will be overturned when ABC joins the court!
Roberts is being blackmailed—there is no other possible explanation any more.
He’s a Liberal, that’s it.
Justice Drudge
Appointed by the same Bush family that gave us Souter.
They’ve got the goods on him and rolled him over. By now he may even fear for the lives of his family.
Roberts is an exact replica of the man who nominated him. Bush was never conservative. He was always a country club moderate RINO type and he nominate a man who was moderately conservative. Roberts is not a strict constructionist. I despise the man and he has done more to hurt his beloved court then any justice before him. I kinda wish he would join RBG.
yup
to hell with the notion its a 5-3 court
Secrets we won’t live long enough to learn like JFK, Aliens, Area 51 and other stuff.
Maybe he woke up with a horse head in his bed or found some dead critters in his
kids’ beds or the bunny got boiled.
But hey, Roberts and his wife are now more acceptable to their liberal neighbors. Isn’t that what’s most important? /sarc
There ought to be a rule for SCOTUS.
After 10 years serving as a Justice, that a president can replace him/her with a new appointee, but only if the majority of Americans wish for it, via a petition that collects at least 20 million votes (verified and only one vote per person) to replace or just outright FIRE him/her.
When you don’t represent the wishes of the people that sent you there, then you should be sent out the door.
At least RBG had principals (ones I disagree with) but Roberts is like a freaking traitor.
Use Obama as you test case, and see if you really want to
give him that kind of power.
Kagen and Sotomayor should have been forced to recuse themselves is this case.
This s#it is about to come to an end.
He is not a traitor he has ALWAYS been a Lib and Bush knew exactly who he was and didn’t give a damn BECAUSE Bush was a RINO globalist, open borders POS!!! We have NOW been in the ME for 20 fricking years because of Bush!!!
Roberts is severely compromised. He should quit.
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