The nation’s high court turned it’s back on the ridiculous effort , signed on by over a hundred Republican House lawmakers and over 15 Red State Attorney General’s…
Even Republican US Senator’s thought the last ditch effort was without merit….
The suit from Texas looked to challenge votes from four ‘other’ states….
NOT Texas….
This is the second time in the last week that the Supreme’s turned thumbs down on crazy legal efforts to overturn the votes of tens of Millions of Americans….
Oh?
The 3 people that Trump put on court?
They didn’t roll over for the President….
The turndown was unanimous….
Again….
The Electoral College will announce what we know on Monday….
Joe Biden WILL be the next President in less then a month and half…..
Nothing Trump and Company have tried to do has broken the way America operates….
People have followed the ‘law’ and ‘constitution’ …
Not ‘the Donald’…..
NY Times….
The Supreme Court on Friday rejected an audacious lawsuit by Texas that had asked the court to throw out the presidential election results in four battleground states captured by President-elect Joseph R. Biden Jr.
The court, in a brief unsigned order, said Texas lacked standing to pursue the case, saying it “has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another state conducts its elections.”
The move, coupled with a one-sentence order on Tuesday turning away a similar request from Pennsylvania Republicans, signaled that the court has refused to be drawn into President Trump’s losing campaign to overturn the results of the election last month.
There will continue to be scattered litigation brush fires around the nation from Mr. Trump’s allies, but as a practical matter the Supreme Court’s action puts an end to any prospect that Mr. Trump will win in court what he lost at the polls….
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“I think this will end up in the Supreme Court,” Mr. Trump said of the election a few days after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s deathin September. “And I think it’s very important that we have nine justices.”…
Washington Post…
Justices Samuel A. Alito Jr. and Clarence Thomas, as they have in the past, said they did not believe the court had the authority to simply reject Texas’s request. “I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.”
Trump, who has appointed three of the court’s nine members, has long viewed the Supreme Court as something of an ace-in-the-hole, and called for the justices to display “courage” and rescue him in post-election litigation….
The 56th Trump legal gambit LOSES…..
If Trump COULD find a way to get rid of Barrett and his other choices?
He WOULD…..
Text of Supreme Court’s order:
https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/121120zr_p860.pdf
(ORDER LIST: 592 U.S.)
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2020
ORDER IN PENDING CASE
155, ORIG. TEXAS V. PENNSYLVANIA, ET AL.
The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution. Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections. All other pending motions are dismissed as moot.
Statement of Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joins:
In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction. See Arizona v. California, 589 U. S. ___ (Feb. 24, 2020) (Thomas, J., dissenting). I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.
They Shut that sucker DOWN!
You ain’t got NO friend’s up there Donald on this one!
Some pissed off Texans…..
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Reality is setting in for at least some on the MAGA internet after SCOTUS ruling, after a month of denying Biden’s win. The general response is accusing Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett of being deep state plants and calling for civil war/martial law.
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Oh well. Trump is about $250m richer. That was part of the whole scam, right? Not sure what their goal was, but I’m sure he’s well set even with 75% of that for a bit. Wonder if he will pay some of these rally debts. Doubt it. Hopefully someone is looking into this.
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Disgraced Ex-President, Donald Trump, issued a royal decree expelling Justices Gorsuch, Barrett, & Kavanaughty from the Supreme Court citing their failure to comply with their Loyalty Pledges.
Just a few comments from the twitter universe ….
Where reality is having a tough time for those who STILL think Trump WON the election that he did NOT.……..
They are kooks too.
There is no evidence.None. Zero. Zilch.
That Trump won the election.
The fact that the majority of Republicans believe that shows what a pack of radical Right Wing nutjobs most of them are.
It is difficult to even relate to those so wrapped up in this insane hatred of “them libruls” that they are no longer even rational.
If you ever turn on Fox News, Newsmax or OAN, you can begin to understand Republicans.
Yesterday, I turned on Fox News to see how they were covering the breaking News that the Supreme Court ruled against Trump. They did not spend a lot of time covering it. They did suggest that the ruling was bad news for Trump, but reminded us that there are still a few lawsuits that have not yet been resolved – although there was an acknowledgement that the Trump campaign was running out of time.
More of the focus was that Hunter Biden did not appear to report all his income in a prior year and why were the other networks not covering this?
The Hunter Biden story is like maybe number 19 on the top 20 stories in the country right now.
The Hunter Biden thing IS dumb ….
I think u have it right Jack….
6 months from now he gets a new tax bill and pays it….
Just like Trump is gonna get one for millions also… Cerp Hunter’s will be way smaller…
I only really watch Fox News during the Special Report with Bret Baeir hour on weekdays and I try to keep up with Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.
Yesterday, Special Report was on the air as this SCOTUS news broke and Baeir of course said it was devastating for Trump and that he is basically out of options. I Imagine the Wallace show will follow suit.
The Texas Republican Party is fundamentally opposed to the Constitution of the United States ,a common ailment of those who espouse Right Wing Dogma.
Of course when your party is led by a psychotic kook like Allen West?
What do you expect?
Here is how Illinois Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger responded to Allan West:
“I believe @TexasGOP
should immediately retract this, apologize, and fire Allen West and anyone else associated with this. My guy Abraham Lincoln and the Union soldiers already told you no.”
The succeed stuff is just blowing off steam…
It was not long ago that a sometimes commenter here expressed his wish for California to secede from the Union after the election of Trump.
Sore losers all around. It will probably be part of our culture for a long time to come. We raise generations to believe “everyone deserves the same trophy.”
The five states that pay far more in federal taxes than they get back in federal benefits are NY, NJ, CT, MA and IL.
Red states are highly dependent on these five states, and they would struggle even more than they are now if they secede from the union.
Great point Z…..
The same knuckleheads think Trump won…
Go figure?🙄
They could always move to Russia where they have just one party running the country
All 3 of Trump’s appointments to the SC refused to rule in favor of the Republican effort to overturn the election.
Bush Jr and Sr appointees Alito and Thomas however are pure MAGA bootlickers
1. Thomas and Alito were nominated by different Presidents Bush
2. They had a different opinion as to standing but said their opinion said they also would have rejected on the merit.
So it was 9-0.
Which is why Joe Biden dismissed the idea of ‘packing’ the court….
The best part of this?
The slam dunk on Donald Trump HIMSELF‼️
The dumb ass thought he could buy Supreme Court judges and McConnell helped him!
It is also true that the organized Democrat smear campaign that insisted that Amy Coney Barret was part of a deal she agreed to in order to repeal Obamacare in October and rule in favor of Trump in November were wrong.
People may disagree with her rulings for decades to come but all indications are that she is a person of character and integrity.
We’ll see how Barrett goes…
But getting ‘on’ the court changes things for judges who can read and smell the way the wind blows…
Her intentions, whether you will agree with her much or not for the next decades, are that she is only reading and smelling the Constitution.
And the same can be said about Gorsuch and Kavanaugh.
In my view, the only true accomplishment of the Trump Administration… and if anyone gets the credit, it should be McConnell.
I noted that one was nominated by Bush 41 and one by 43.
I’m glad it was decided 9-0.
But Alito and Thomas still had to get their Trump bootlicking in. And that deserves to be remembered.
I misread the first paragraph then. My bad. Still trying to wake up
I don’t really think there is much to criticize Alito or Thomas on this. It’s up to the Court to decide, but it seems like a legitimate argument in theory that an argument directly between the states is naturally the purview of SCOTUS.
They said that clearly that the case itself had no merit though.
I fall, as a certified vacillating centrist, somewhere between CG’s interpretation and Scott’s.
Here is the full, entire text of Alito’s and Thomas’s statement:
¶ Statement of Justice Alito, with whom Justice Thomas joins: In my view, we do not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction. See Arizona v. California, 589 U. S. ___ (Feb. 24, 2020) (Thomas, J., dissenting). I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.
That doesn’t qualify as MAGA-hatted bootlicking to me.
Article III of the U.S. Constitution says that “in all Cases … in which a State shall be a party, the supreme Court shall have original jurisdiction.” This is limited by the 11th Amendment which reads “The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.”
By implication, this leaves state vs U.S. and state vs state cases within the Supreme Court’s original jurisdiction, and that has been (so far as I know) the general precedent so far.
In this case, the State of Texas is suing the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
But I think that there might be legitimate disagreement as to whether the Supreme Court must entertain the case.
¶ Where I might disagree with CG is in reading Justice Alito’s statement to mean that, once the Court entertained Texas’s case they would then necessarily join a 9-0 vote to reject it. on the merits (rather than standing). Alito specifically says “ I would therefore grant the motion to file the bill of complaint but would not grant other relief, and I express no view on any other issue.” I’m not sure what other relief Texas was seeking, but if it was some kind of immediate stay or injunction, he could very well want the Court to deny that summarily while accepting arguments on the merits. Perhaps Jack could explicate further. Or I could actually read the 22 pages of Texas’ petition to the Court.
We can use more centrists in the government like Dave.
in simple terms the Texas AG wanted to question other states voting people NOT HIS….With NO proof supplied to the court
This case is good that it knocked THAT stupidly
That I know, as does nearly everyone else.
The questions were (1) standing and (2) what kind of relief, general and/or immediate was being sought.
1) Standing?….Texas bringing the case not involved but complaining about 4 OTHER states
2) Relief?….Trump. wins negating 70 million votes and a 8 million winning margin
A crowd of thousands in Washington cheered as Mr. Trump flew overhead in a helicopter. Many said they remained convinced that the election was stolen, no matter what the courts say.
Incensed by a Supreme Court ruling that further dashed President Trump’s hopes of invalidating his November electoral defeat, thousands of his supporters marched in Washington and several state capitals on Saturday to protest what they falsely claim was a stolen election.
Trump flags dotted the air above Freedom Plaza in Washington, where demonstrators — including many members of the far-right Proud Boys group — chanted “four more years!” and vowed not to recognize Joseph R. Biden Jr. as the president-elect….
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In my view, the Supreme Court reached the only decision they could have.
As to Alito and Thomas ,they were simply reiterating a rather technical issue that they have held and expounded on in the past.
In my view, the Court should have used the occasion to chastise this obviously political act masquerading as a legal matter.
However ,Im not surprised they didn’t.
Finally I find no reason to “praise” their decision.In reality,it was very “conservative.” In other words, they were just doing their jobs.
From the Washington Post…
“Nearly two thirds of House Republicans and 18 state attorneys general signed their names to the failed Supreme Court lawsuit seeking to have justices overturn the will of the voters in multiple states.Others have gone on television to parrot the presidents baseless conspiracy theories about vote-rigging .Some are using rhetoric reminiscent of the Civil War to express their fealty to the presidents cause.”
Remember who they are and let them ever be known for what they are…
MAGA red hat wearing bootlickers !
Seditionists
You know how right-wing conspiracists till dwell and talk obsessively about a microscopic and very transient group called NAMBLA (the North American Man-Boy Love Association).
I think that those who have willingly or fearfully betrayed the Party of Lincoln, the U.S. Constitution and perhaps the Republic to perhaps the most dangerous demagogue in American history should not be ashamed to be grouped into
>b>MHBLA
the MAGA-Hatted Boot-Lickers’ Alliance.
Red Hat Wearing MAGA Bootlickers…
People here either do not know or do not wish to acknowledge whom coined that label here…
Unfuckingbelievable.…..
Trump Files Another Supreme Court Appeal
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“President Trump’s campaign team on Sunday filed an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court asking it to reverse several cases by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to change the state’s mail ballot law before and after the 2020 presidential election,” Fox News reports.
Rick Hasen: “John Eastman should be ashamed of this petition… The citation to the Epoch Times in support of the choice of the alternative slate made me laugh out loud.”
No I don’t know who coined the term. But you imply I should care?
CG coined the term in one of his intermittent picks at me because I revealed,in response to his jibe that I never voted for any Republicans,that I had in fact voted for the Republican candidate for Supt. Of Education in SC.
Since one of his favorite things to do is claim some “moral superiority “ over the other posters here ,he told me that I had supported a “MAGA red hat wearing bootlicker.”
Since we all know that he remains a Republican at heart and since well over 95% of Republican politicians supported and continue to support Trump, I picked it up cause I thought it is a good description of Republicans in this day and time.
He gets full credit though for originating the saying.
I knew you had voted for Republicans in the past (Nixon, Graham, Scott, etc). I did not know until you admitted so, that you voted for *more than one* Republican nominee for statewide office in South Carolina, in 2018, when Donald Trump was President, even though those Republicans were ardent, unapologetic supporters of Trump.
You have made it clear that you might do the same in 2022. Support for Trump and Trumpism is only one factor for you in “real life” as opposed to online.