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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So they know exactly how many phony ones they have to produce. Outrageous!
Roberts and obama care and extortion made in heaven, they still hold his illegal adoption over his head, hes scum like the rest and compromised
The ONLY way this gets overturned is if a similar challenge from another state comes up after ACB is seated. If it is a third circuit case (where PA is situated) the SC can apply the holding to the entirety of the SC, or to the entirety of the nation.
But the PA SC case is now settled. They get three days post-election and do not haver to prove the post mark before election day.
This has been done in SC a few weeks ago.
What I do not understand is this: Ballots have prepaid postage. Prepaid envelopes are not post marked at all, so we should be able to throw away all ballots that come in after the election that do not have a postmark, right? What am I missing here?
Roberts wants to include Ballots the DNC manufactures after 11/3
It is easy to back date a postmark, but there shouldn’t be any postmarks on pre-paid ballots, so that alone is reason to throw them out.
You are correct. I dug a bit deeper. It was a stay ruling. The PA GOP can bring it back up if ACB gets seated.
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