Posted on 12/22/2020 9:30:05 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A lawsuit filed by Republicans seeking stronger, more uniform signature matching for the January 5, 2021, US Senate run-off elections has been dismissed by a District Court of Appeals court in Georgia. The district court found the complainants lacked standing. This prompted an appeal to the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit.
The Georgia Republican Party was joined by US Sens. Kelly Loeffler (R-GA), and David Perdue (R-GA), in a lawsuit against Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. The suit claimed that signature matching for mail-in ballots, as executed in the November 3, 2020, General Election was “unconstitutional, arbitrary, and inconsistent.”
The three-judge panel – consisting of Clinton nominee Charles Wilson, Obama nominee Beverly Martin, and Trump nominee Robert Luck, ruled Sunday that the plaintiffs did not adequately allege an injury that can be addressed to establish standing.
“Like in Jacobson, the campaigns sued the Secretary of State,” the panel wrote in its dismissal. “They alleged that the Secretary is the state’s chief election officer, that he has the authority and responsibility to manage Georgia’s electoral system, and that he, along with the election board members, has the duty to promulgate rules and regulations to obtain uniformity in the practices of election officials and to ensure a fair, legal, and orderly conduction of elections.”
“Jacobson” refers to Jacobson v. Florida Secretary of State, a precedent-setting case in the matter.
“But, just as in Jacobson, the absentee ballot statute puts the duty to ‘compare the signature’ and accept or reject a ballot on the ‘registrar or clerk’ – not the secretary of state.”
The judges explained that the motion for injunction before them asked them to do what they already stated they couldn’t do in the previous case, “order a nonparty county official to do something contrary to state law.”
The question that begs to be asked is this. Did the Georgia GOP and lawyers for Loeffler and Purdue do their due diligence in seeking the correct relief from the right litigant?
Judging from the language of the dismissal this appears to be a valid question.
in a dictatorship the citizens have no standing. No one is willing to start picking off politicians so that’s the end of it.
...did not adequately allege an injury...
Perhaps this is necessary to support the “after election” suit.
And, if the lawsuit occurs after the election, the court will rule it was filed too late.
No. When they sued after the election the courts said, “You should have sued months ago.”
Three card monte legal system.
Right to the point.
Once again the courts have dropped the ball. I am shocked! Shocked! /s
Who has standing if not the Republican party?
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Only the Democrat Party has standing. Their evidence and cases are always valid.
Was this a 2-1 decision or a 3-0 decision?
If this is not standing, what is?
Our courts are now as political as everything else in America.
I can think of better targets than pols
What good are constitutional protections if nobody has standing to assert them?
How many Judges did China put on the benches the last few decades?
Now ya know. Lots of ‘em.
If this were Roberts deciding, he'd have "interpreted" that they meant the Secretary of State and all underling direct-reports, and ruled on it that way. It's only when it's a case brought by Republicans that they nuance every word and phrase and toss it on the first mis-dotted i.
The ‘lack standing’ argument doesn’t flush here! It is nonsense. The court was terrified to take the case.
The situation will not change. Never again will our nation be one nation. Before there is any relief, before there is any recompense for the injustice, before there is any exoneration for those falsely accused, Jesus will descend to receive those awaiting His soon return. He alone will satisfy those who are children of His father. What a glorious day it will be!
Never going to ask a judge to settle my disputes. (lesson from election fraud)
Never going to trust a doctor to heal me. (lesson from ccp virus)
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