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The Supreme Court Was Right: Texas Didn’t Have Standing
The Federalist ^ | December 15, 2020 | Thomas Perry

Posted on 12/15/2020 10:16:00 AM PST by Kaslin

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To: zeestephen

People have an anus and an opinion, I’s up to real Americans to decide what the author is using.


41 posted on 12/15/2020 10:41:34 AM PST by JayAr36 (My disgust with government is complete.)
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To: SecondAmendment

Baloney of course Texas had standing.

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Is anyone stupid enough to believe that if a Democrat loss was due to voting fraud in several states the USSC would state they had no standing? Of course not, the Court would unhesitatingly side with the plaintiff state.

We all know what’s going on here.


42 posted on 12/15/2020 10:42:03 AM PST by Starboard
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To: KierkegaardMAN

Yeah, well that will not be the case. The Democrats delight in destroying the Constitution. Without the Constitution, there are no constitutional values that will last. Is Thomas Perry really this stupid that he believes what he wrote?


43 posted on 12/15/2020 10:42:33 AM PST by Robert DeLong
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To: Slyfox
Article III, Sec. 2, Clause 2:
In all cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and those in which a state shall be party, the Supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.


POTUS is a "consul" in its original meaning from the Roman Republic:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_consul#Under_the_Republic
Since the case affected the election of POTUS, it was within SCOTUS's obligatory original jurisdiction. Unfortunately, Texas didn't brief this point.
44 posted on 12/15/2020 10:42:42 AM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Kaslin

The states that set up a voting system that violated the U.S. Constitution created the uncertainty about whether illegally cast votes caused a result different from that which would have occurred if the system was not in violation of the Constitution. Because the states who violated the Constitution created the uncertainty, the burden of proof should shift to them to prove that their unconstitutional system DID NOT create a result different from what would have occurred if their systems were legal. The burden of proof should be on the party that illegally created the uncertainty.


45 posted on 12/15/2020 10:46:57 AM PST by AJFavish (www.allanfavish.com)
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To: Kaslin

Ain’t buyin’ it.

I wonder if the Trump Traitors Amy Barrett, Brett Kavanaugh, and Neil Gorsesh are putting reporters up to this as a way to save face.

I wouldn’t doubt it.


46 posted on 12/15/2020 10:47:09 AM PST by Paulie (Better Dead than Red)
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To: Kaslin

Garbage....total bovine excrement 👎


47 posted on 12/15/2020 10:47:49 AM PST by Jrabbit
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To: stanne

People can talk and write and deliberate all they want, but the people of this country are the ones in charge.

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You must be thinking of the original America. In America 2.0 the people are no longer in charge. The Deep State is.

We’ll rectify that when we set up the next republic which will be based on freedom, liberty, laws, and morality. We’ll have a rare opportunity to fix the leaks in the current system that brought the country down.


48 posted on 12/15/2020 10:48:37 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Avalon Memories
So you think the Texas suit was “horrible.”


I don't think it was horrible. Actually think it was a well timed and fairly brilliant legal maneuver that sets the stage for what is to come. That said it was a long shot , hail mary type effort that was more about shaping public opinion, putting pressure on SCOTUS and getting things teed up for the main event - the vote fraud side of the story.

The Texas case framed the debate that there was massive irregularities in the voting that violated the various election laws and that the votes should be tossed on the basis of legal ineligibly.

Sound legal argument but a bit hard for average person to grasp and even harder to get people to by into the reasoning and accept the outcome as legit and not some winning on a technicality.

Easier to get buy into on the much stronger fraud and foreign collusion to rig the election angle, which the Texas case did not address. .

The best thing would have been for the SCOTUS to accept the case an then merge the fraud and election rigging cases into the Texas case in the interest of judicial economy, but the SCOTUS chose to punt and kick the can down the road.

49 posted on 12/15/2020 10:49:49 AM PST by rdcbn1
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To: rdcbn1

You're wrong, troll.

50 posted on 12/15/2020 10:51:12 AM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: AndyJackson

True, but I don’t see that happening. Perhaps I’m being too pessimistic.


51 posted on 12/15/2020 10:51:13 AM PST by Avalon Memories (I literally hate Democrats for what they're doing to our country -- attempting to turn it Communist)
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To: Kaslin

At the end of the day the legislatures in those states are responsible for the electors. If they lacked the guts to do anything there is nothing anyone else can do about it


52 posted on 12/15/2020 10:53:33 AM PST by kjam22 ( )
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To: Kaslin
This Is a Case for Trump, Not Texas

I think if anyone has standing, it would be the State legislators who's power was usurped by PA SC, Sec of State decree, governor's covid orders etc who changed election rules because that's the State legislators' job.

53 posted on 12/15/2020 10:53:58 AM PST by Pollard (Bunch of curmudgeons)
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To: sasquatch

So much for We the People.

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Its now of, by and for the Deep State. We’re the exact opposite of the principles the country was founded on.

On to the next republic. We’ll know what things to prevent from happening next time.


54 posted on 12/15/2020 10:54:06 AM PST by Starboard
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To: Kaslin

I hope that SCOTUS is prepared to welcome new hard-left activist judges with a packed court.


55 posted on 12/15/2020 10:54:08 AM PST by windsorknot
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To: Starboard

We are in charge. If we allow the steal it will be because of that attitude ‘oh ttt get ray won’t let us be in charge any more. Whah wahh.

That’s the new third party wimp party.


56 posted on 12/15/2020 10:54:27 AM PST by stanne
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To: zeestephen

Barrett, Gorsuch and Kavanagh have already confirmed that the Constitution is dead without an extra 2 Democrat justices. But the Dems will still pack the Court just because. I feel the most sorry for Justice Thomas, who gave Barrett the undeserved honour of administering the oath at her public swearing-in. She now hold the record for the fastest betrayal of those who supported her nomination.


57 posted on 12/15/2020 10:55:20 AM PST by littleharbour ("You take on the intel community they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you" C. Schumer)
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To: pepsi_junkie

[[However if states can do that and other states have no standing to object then the court is telling states their only options is accept subservient status,]]

I’ll add BUT ONLY WHEN the cheating is done by liberals, when done by conservatives, the courts will be quick to jump in and rule in favour of liberals


58 posted on 12/15/2020 10:55:31 AM PST by Bob434
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To: Kaslin

I bet Texas has standing to contribute whenever the fed govt wants to bail somebody out.


59 posted on 12/15/2020 10:55:45 AM PST by Buttons12 ( )
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To: Kaslin

According to Article III, Section 2, the Federal courts have jurisdiction in “cases in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States . . . [and] to controversies between two or more states . . . “. That seems to clearly give the USSC the authority to hear this case, and for Texas to file it. However, it’s quite possible that two centuries of Court activism and revisionism have warped this doctrine, as it has warped so many others.


60 posted on 12/15/2020 10:57:17 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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