Posted on 01/11/2021 10:17:13 AM PST by Red Badger
The Supreme Court on Monday rejected efforts by President Donald Trump and his allies to get the court to quickly consider challenges. The move effectively shut the door on the president’s legal strategy to stop the steal.
The court released an order in the morning denying expedited consideration to suits filed by Trump’s campaign challenging election procedures in Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.
It similarly denied requests from L. Lin Wood and Sidney Powell to expedite challenges to the elections in Michigan and Georgia, as well as other suits filed by Trump supporters.
The action by the court was widely expected and was not accompanied by any explanation or opinion, as is typical in such denials. There were no noted dissents from any of the court’s nine justices.
The court could still theoretically agree to take cases related to the election, but likely would not hear arguments before October, well into Biden’s first year in office. The justices returned from their winter recess to convene for a private conference on Friday. The order list was released this morning.
The court had made it clear that it would not process the cases on the schedule Trump asked for even before issuing the order.
For instance, in Trump v. Boockvar, one of the cases challenging the Pennsylvania election procedures, the president’s attorney, John Eastman, urged the court in a December brief to take up the case before Jan. 6, when Congress met to certify the Electoral College tally.
Eastman wrote that if the court did not act before Jan. 20, when Biden will be inaugurated, “it will be impossible to repair election results” that included ballots that he alleged were cast unlawfully based on rules approved by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court.
In about 2 hours it begins.
When they finally get around to hearing the cases, they will just declare the issues moot, as Biden has already been inaugurated.
Barrett, Kavanaugh, and Gorsuch are done now. They joined with the left against the President who appointed them. They’ll never be able to have good legacies.
We now have confirmation that the highest court in the land means nothing. None of the three branches are worth spit. Good to know.
I think you just named him.
Gorsuch, Kavanaugh and Barrett have been told how they will vote by Roberts.
Thomas and Alito are only two Justices - not much they can do.
Wow, I’m so shocked, not. John Roberts is not Trump friendly at all.
That’s where the analogy “falls apart”. But the fact is that you don’t go in, guns blazing. You exercise all possible “low impact” options before you bring out the nukes. Again, I’m not saying Trump has anything up his sleeve. Rather, I’m saying I’m not passing judgement until Biden is actually sworn in. And even then something overtly legal happening against him would not really surprise me.
There is nothing I can do about what is happening in Washington so, like everyone else, I’m just speculating about stuff.
Let me guess...”no standing”. Looks like the entire United States must take our socialist abuse “sitting down”
They might as well have. Any cases after January 20 will likely be dismissed as “moot”.
Well who else is shocked and surprised....lol....
Geez...if Trump’s lawyers can’t get on the docket because of “no standing”, how could anyone know the validity of their evidence?
It could be nothing, or it could be that someone wants to write a concurrence or dissent.
Same difference as far as any impact on the election.
They must have been highly threatened.
SCOTUS is part of the problem, not the solution
despite PDJT’s appointees
imagine what it will be like as soon as Soroznazi/Biden/Harris/DNC get to put people there
They must have really threatened them.
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