Supreme Court Flooded with Filings in Texas Challenge to Voting Procedures

Breitbart ^ | 10 Dec 2020 | JOEL B. POLLAK

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The Supreme Court has been flooded with filings since Texas launched its case against Pennsylvania and three other states on Monday night, increasing the likelihood that the Court will finally hear a challenge to the 2020 presidential election results.

As Breitbart News was first to report, Texas sued Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, arguing that they had made changes to their voting process outside their respective state legislatures, which the Constitution says must control the selection of presidential electors. Texas also argued that there were differences in voting procedures within these states, in violation of the Equal Protection Clause. And it also argued that there were irregularities that resulted from these violations.

In addition to the original filing by the State of Texas, there are other filings, including:

• A motion to intervene by President Donald Trump
• An amici curiae (“friends of the court”) brief by Missouri, on behalf of itself and “Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and West Virginia” in support of Texas’s case
• An amici curiae brief filed by Carter Phillips and other “Never Trump” Republican opponents of the president, supporting Pennsylvania and the defendant states
• An amici curiae brief filed by Roy Moore and other “constitutional attorneys” in support of the Texas case.
• An amicus curiae brief filed by Arizona, urging the Court to act quickly
• Responses to the Texas filing by each of the defendant states
• An amici curiae brief filed by the District of Columbia and “States and territories of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Guam, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, U.S. Virgin Islands, and Washington” in support of Pennsylvania and the defendant states

[rxsid]

Yes, lots of filings. It's as if this might be one of the more important cases in our country's history...or something.

Thanks for posting the "scorecard."

[dayglored]

"There's battle lines being drawn
And nobody's right if everybody's wrong."

Gonna be interesting.

[convoter2016]

As I wrote in another posting, the more individuals from the four states who intervened in this case, the better chance the U.S. Supreme Court won’t just dismiss this case for lack of standing.

[Jeepers43]

Thanks for posting that summary. Helpful.

It is interesting - but unsurprising - that (from what I have read) the Texas and amici filings rest on Constitutional principles and reason.

Whereas the Defendant PA and amici filings are chock full of vile slander and name calling. The same old faux "outrage."

I do wonder how the SCOTUS will respond to the Defendant filings.

[fastrock]

Didn’t all 4 states have to have their briefings or stance or opinions in by today???

[Sequoyah101]

Opinions are like arses and everybody has one so here is mine.

It is not a good one. Even I don’t like it.

I believe the USSC is going to punt on this for reason. They are going to say, in effect, the Constitution provides a process for cases like this. That is to not accept the electors from these rogue states and take this to the state legislatures the congress and the spinate.

Y’all go ahead and fight it out according to the provisions of the Constitution. We, the USSC, have no say in this matter.

[Phillyred]

But Jeb! said to move on.

[FreeReign]

Supreme Court Flooded with Filings in Texas Challenge..

Even my Basset Hound filed a brief.

[Paladin2]

Traitor Roberts coulda headed this off some weeks ago.

Now, either way it goes, he’s screwed the reputation of the court.

Hd’s a Brutus Judge. Too clever by half.

[indthkr]

Texas filings - bump for later....

[jdsteel]

Job 1...make it impossible for SCOTUS to ignore.

[kingu]

I don’t know how it will go. I’ve not read all the brief, but the heart of Bush v Gore was changing the rules mid election is the line too far, and I can’t think of a one which rules were changed after candidates filed their intents.

Does that kick it back to the legislature? PA legislature’s brief might be the star that SCOTUS hitches their wagon to. “This has become a political question, therefore the duly elected legislatures should exercise their duties.”

That’s if it makes it through standing. The original brief is surprisingly thin on that. I donno how it’s going to go. The obvious punt is to the legislatures which quite possibly could change the election results. But that’s how the constitution is designed that issues and questions like that are ultimately decided by legislative bodies.

[Still Thinking]

I’m in favor of moving on. Oh, you mean Yeb! wanted to move on AND let Uncle Touchy be POTUS?? That’s a horse of a different hue.

[TakebackGOP]

Does anyone know the date the SC will decide?

[angmo]

It’s like that scene in “Miracle on 34th Street”, when they dump thousands of letters on the Judge’s desk.

[nonsporting]

That’s if it makes it through standing. The original brief is surprisingly thin on that

Did you read the 2nd? See sections I.C.1-3, pp.11-15? This lays out the case for harm/injury.

[4Liberty]

[jazzlite]

Looks like the “grass roots,” has had enough, and may have have decided it is time to “do” or “die.” The Supreme Court is the last chance to save the nation. We have seen this before all down through history. In those cases, the people were already enslaved by the powerful. In America, we have never had our freedom taken from us before and, looks like, most of us think it is time to rise up and shout out resistance loud enough to be heard. Anyone, with the ability to pay attention and think knows that unbelievable corruption has taken place here. The world is watching because it is going on there, too. The corrupt always seem to gravitate to one another, whether here or there. I pray our Supreme Court has the courage and integrity to step up and stop this.

[God_Country_Trump_Guns]

Don’t shoot the messenger. You will not like what I am about to say.

As a lawyer with a dozen years of basically NOTHING but Federal litigation, I believe the lawsuit is just a frivolous show, meant to appease and placate us.

Some of the more recent filings include briefs by fictional entities “New California State” and “New Nevada State.” Unlike the real California and Nevada, these entities pretend to support PDJT.

I won’t debate the issue, and I won’t respond to personal attacks. All I ask is:

1- Wait and see. I predict SCOTUS will hand down a stinging rebuke of this lawsuit, and

2- If and when my prediction comes true, remember that every person, party, or entity who pretended to support this lawsuit, KNEW that it was frivolous, and threw in sham support to deceive us.

PDJT ruffled too many feathers, refused to bow down to status quo, and slaughtered too many sacred cows. A decision was made to lead him to an election he was destined to lose.

All these characters who are now filing briefs in SCOTUS: Where were you last year? Why didn’t you challenge PA’s universal mail-in ballots? Why didn’t you pressure McConnell to at least DEBATE the 3 or 4 election security bills introduced in Senate?

Now, when the damage is done, you PRETEND to throw your support behind PDJT? So, when SCOTUS shoots down your frivolous lawsuit, you can turn to us and say “welp, we did what we could, let’s support SCOTUS, it is the highest court in the land.”