Trump allies to ask Supreme Court to block Pennsylvania ruling on mail-in ballots

Washington Post ^ | December 1 at 3:05 PM | Elise Viebeck and Robert Barnes

[BenLurkin]

The Republican lawsuit challenged Act 77, the 2019 statute in Pennsylvania that allows voters to cast mail ballots for any reason. Trump’s allies asked the state court to invalidate all votes cast by mail in the general election — more than 2.5 million in total — or direct the Republican-led state legislature to appoint its own slate of presidential electors.

After granting a state request that it exercise extraordinary jurisdiction, the state supreme court dismissed the case on Saturday, ruling that petitioners waited too long to sue.

The order blamed petitioners for a “complete failure to act with due diligence in commencing their facial constitutional challenge, which was ascertainable upon Act 77’s enactment.”

The chief justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court expressed some concern about whether revisions to the commonwealth’s mail-in balloting practices required a constitutional amendment, rather than simply passage by the state’s Republican-led legislature.

But another said it was too late to bring those challenges now.

Generally, the U.S. Supreme Court does not second-guess state courts when they are interpreting their own constitutions.

But the petitioners, led by Rep. Mike Kelly (R-Pa.), said that without the justices’ intervention, the commonwealth “will take further actions to certify the results of the election, potentially limiting this court’s ability to grant relief in the event of a decision on the merits in petitioners’ favor.”

[JoSixChip]

Good luck. This is where we find, yet again, that the SCOTUS is an arm of the deep state.

[DiogenesLamp]

The courts are always filled with ridiculous legal arguments. Why would anyone file a lawsuit until they are able to recognize a harm?

If they had filed a lawsuit within the time constraints the court says they had to file within, then the court would have said that since there was no "harm" they didn't have standing to sue.

Courts are full of pompous bullsh*t.

[AFB-XYZ]

We don’t know that.

[BenLurkin]

Courts are full of pompous bullsh*t.

Truer words were never spoken.

[flamberge]

I expect that the Supreme Court will decline this request.

And that is where legal remedies come to an absolute dead end.

We all can be quite certain of what will come afterwards.

[JoSixChip]

We don’t know that.

I know it for a fact. Soon you will too.

[BenLurkin]

The most probable outcome is easy to predict, but other possibilities remain.

[Lower Deck]

Generally, the U.S. Supreme Court does not second-guess state courts when they are interpreting their own constitutions.

I suppose we'll see whether the Supreme Court makes an exception in this case.

[SmokingJoe]

Generally, the U.S. Supreme Court does not second-guess state courts when they are interpreting their own constitutions.

Yet another lie in an article chock full of lies. The US Supreme Court overrules state courts all the time, not least in the Bush v Gore presidential elections case in 2000.

[RedStateRocker]

If the Supremes dont then, why, we’ll have to have Sidney Powell unleash the Kraken.. for REALS this time!

[AFB-XYZ]

I don’t understand. Exactly HOW do you “know it for a fact”?

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Please pray the Supreme Court recognizes they are Supreme over the State, and do the right thing.

[DivineMomentsOfTruth]

Yep!! The provable systemic election/voter fraud is just the tip of the iceberg. It has to be revealed regardless of any SC decisions.

[JoSixChip]

I don’t understand. Exactly HOW do you “know it for a fact”?

Do some research on the Federalist Society. Then look at the membership of all these judges playing wack-a-mole using switches and standing to make it impossible to present evidence in court.

[afchief]

BS!!!!

Stop LYING Like a Liberal!

[JoSixChip]

BS!!!! Stop LYING Like a Liberal!

There is a post that will not age well. Though I doubt I will get any apology from you.

[Pajamajan]

Hoping against hope the SC is not entirely compromised/corrupt.

[lightman]

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[dinodino]

Agree 100%, I’m sorry to say. The writing is on the wall.