Posted on 12/11/2020 5:30:08 AM PST by Old Yeller
Derek Schmidt knows better.
The Kansas attorney general knows the law. He knows that case Texas recently filed at the U.S. Supreme Court attempting to overturn the presidential election is dangerous nonsense. But he signed our state onto an amicus brief anyway, joining other states in supporting that very same dangerous nonsense.
The presidential campaign is over. Joe Biden won a resounding victory, both in the electoral college and the popular vote. Court cases from President Trump and his allies across the country have crashed and burned because there was simply no significant fraud or malfeasance to be found.
Our nation’s elections officials, in the midst of a pandemic, conducted an exemplary election. We should all be proud of their work.
But the president cannot accept defeat. We wrote in this space weeks ago about the craven behavior of too many Republicans who are trying to prop up his dangerous delusion. Unfortunately, that hasn’t stopped — it has only accelerated with this last-ditch suit at the Supreme Court.
It’s worth noting what Texas is trying to do. It wants the Supreme Court to void the election results in the swing states of Georgia, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin. It claims that the voting procedures adopted in those states somehow violate its own voters’ rights.
Legal experts across the political and ideological spectrum have said the suit is ridiculous. Election law expert Rick Hasen writes in his blog that it’s “utter garbage.” Kansans would not stand for a lawsuit from California casting doubt on our election systems, and there’s no reason why Texas should do so for any other state.
So why is Schmidt signing on?
We can only speculate. Perhaps he wants to curry favor with voters who supported Trump. Perhaps he has his eyes set on higher office in the state and thinks he needs to show fealty to the president. Perhaps he believes so deeply in Trump’s agenda that he has decided to back the former reality TV star’s nuttiest notions.
Whatever the case, we must not lose perspective. The attorney general of Kansas backs a lawsuit seeking to disenfranchise millions of voters in other states in hopes of overturning an election. That’s astonishing, shameful and profoundly anti-democratic.
Voters across the nation have spoken, including those in Kansas. Our elected officials — including Schmidt — should respect the will of those voters and defend our electoral system from those who would do it harm.
Written in the true spirit of Baghdad Bob.
“Dangerous nonsense”? How so?
Once again, we’re dealing with Bizarro World. These leftist idiots have it completely backwards.
“Our nation’s elections officials, in the midst of a pandemic, conducted an exemplary election. We should all be proud of their work.”
Nope. Shameful and unacceptable exploitation of a public health emergency. They cheated and they got caught.
These are not the droids you are looking for.
Now why would I waste my time replying to some irrelevant, nonentity far left lunatic newspaper nobody’s ever heard of on their web site?
And give them and Facebook traffic as well?
The massive fraud must be accepted as the new normal.
I respectfully disagree.
Their editorial is from complicity not ignorance, and is yet another example of the pernicious browbeating the elites are using to grind us down into submission...
The theft & fraud is what disenfranchises voters.
Exposing & correcting the fraud is the way to be sure every legal vote counts.
Orwell’s 1984 - Up is down & down is up.
As usual the left reverses the truth; all the left’s truths are lies. What the left accuses others of doing is what the Left itself is doing. This false election cannot stand or our Country fall.
The left is sh***ing its pants.
“crashed and burned”
I thought maybe he was talking about the rioters for a moment.
Except they aren’t arguing fraud or malfeasance. They are arguing the 4 defendant states arbitrarily changed election law without going through the legislative process, thereby harming the voters in plaintiff states, but they already know this.
They’re trying to muddy the waters.
Ah, but you acknowledge there was fraud and malfeasance found.
The very nature of fraud and malfeasance is its goal to not be found. How do the editors know how deep the fraud and malfeasance went?
The Wichita Eagle has a similar article about Klein today. WTH! Our dipshit DemonRat governor must have sent orders to all the Kansas newspapers to disparage AG Klein.
Now that's the funniest thing I've read all morning.
Yo, Editorial, when the Governors of 5 States can change the paramaters of voting in defiance of their own State’s Constitution, THAT disenfranchises the voters of States who followed the rules.
Kind of hard to respect the will of election officials who will not allow election observers as they count dumps of ballots in the middle of the night without verification of signatures and the result for which no mathmatician could duplicate as being within any believable odds. Don't join in the lawlessness of the Big Steal, Salinas Journal.
Proverbs 11: 29 Those who trouble their households will inherit wind, and the fool will be servant to the wise.
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