Posted on 12/06/2020 9:45:40 AM PST by Sense
Analysis of the linked article via ZeroHedge: https://www.zerohedge.com/political/alito-moves-deadline-supreme-court-briefing-pennsylvania-case-bringing-within-safe-harbor
Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has made a critical decision which may signal that court's willingness to hear a controversial case attempting to flip Pennsylvania's 2020 election results.
Originally, Alito set a Wednesday deadline for the state to respond to GOP Rep. Mike Kelly's lawsuit alleging that a 2019 state election reform, known as Act 77, violates both the state and federal constitutions by creating a so-called "no-excuse mail-in" voting regime.
Many took the Wednesday deadline as political theater, as it would place the case outside the "safe harbor" window which requires that controversies "concerning the appointment of all or any of the electors . . . by judicial or other methods or procedures" to be determined" at least six days before the time fixed for the meeting of the electors," according to Law & Crime.
In other words, the Tuesday deadline may signal that the Supreme Court takes Kelly's case, which was rejected by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court with prejudice last weekend.
(Excerpt) Read more at lawandcrime.com ...
It does not take a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.
Samuel Adams
They will punt. The steal is in.
ALL U.S. courts are corrupt.
“You’re saying the ruse was to make the PA legislature do its duty?”
Sort of... at least, facially structured to look that way. If the PA legislature had “done their duty” it would have had two or three direct consequences:
One, by not taking action they avoid giving the court the ability to look at it and say... “hey, thanks... looks good enough from here, and now we don’t need to do anything”.
By PAL not acting, the court can’t dodge its responsibility for addressing the errors in law served up by others, including lower courts. And, by not acting, not only is the path to the court cleared, the PAL isn’t prevented from acting again in the future, only with more authority... given a court ruling backing them up. Good in that, too... including that the finding of a court gives all the legislature(S) the ability to act on and in principle, rather than be accused of acting cravenly and purely politically. Win the case... and all the states flip... even while appearing to have a backbone we know they lack.
There is no denying that the entire exercise, thus far, has been one of Trump standing up for doing the right thing, Democrats doing the wrong thing, and everyone else trying to avoid responsibility. Only, in PA, that result actually has advantages that accrue to those doing the right thing.
Two, by taking the action, it would have enabled the provisions in law that impose the deadline issue. By not taking action, the imposition of a deadline created based on an action taken is avoided... leaving the court no valid reason to avoid hearing the issue only because the (non-operative) deadline has passed.
Three, by PAL taking the action, even if fully justified, it would have opened the door to arguing endlessly about IF the specific act was justified, rightly done, etc. By avoiding action, they prevent the court addressing any other subject than “did the election as conducted comply with the law and the Constitution”. If it didn’t, then you can talk about what is best to do about it.
Bush v Gore was a mess: complex, convoluted, with too many overlapping arguments resulting from the cross purposes inherent in the conflicts in its structure.
This case, in contrast, has a laser-like focus on one thing.
The resulting clarity in the dispute... likely to prevent anything but a reflection of that clarity in result.
This case doesn’t give the justices much of substance in conflicting arguments to hide behind.
They’ll either agree that law means something... and it has to be complied with... or they’ll validate that the law doesn’t matter, and you can ignore it and make things up as you go along.
Roberts... is going to hate it. No fig leaves here.
Thanks for the response.
You have made this a good thread.
bttt
Sense wrote:
“PA in fact HAS flipped... people just don’t know how to read that in how they structured their choice.
Georgia has flipped... in fact... if not yet in act.
Arizona ? Stick a fork in them in Arizona...
My opinion, at the start, was you only needed ONE to flip.
That there is a cascade effect occurring now... is great fun to watch happen... but while it isn’t necessary to winning the argument... it does mean winning BIGGER...”
Ok
PA is 20 electoral votes
GA is 16 electoral votes
AZ is 11 electoral votes
47 total, take away from Biden:
306 - 47 = 259; Biden loses.
I said nothing about not going down fighting. I’m an old man, loosing my life for my country, my kids and their kids is ok by me. If we fight I hope i get the chance to take some of them out first. I don’t know who should go first the politicians or the reporters.
I’m a Viet-nam era vet I know what war is, it’s Hell but sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do. I’m simply not encouraged about any of it. I see obvious fraud all over the place but it doesn’t get on the news.
By all means reporters need to get rid of 1st that way when you deal with commie politicians there’s nobody left to report on it with the liberal slant.
ROFL.
I guess I need to consider how much fun it is to watch liberals cry and bawl over the television. It does have major entertainment value.
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