Pennsylvaina AG: FACT CHECK: Our elections are over when all the votes are counted... try us.

[Dennis Donovan]

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Josh Shapiro @JoshShapiroPA

FACT CHECK: Our elections are over when all the votes are counted.

But if your lawyers want to try us, we’d be happy to defeat you in court one more time.

Daniel Dale @ddale8

Trump on Pennsylvania ballots being counted if they arrive up to three days after Election Day: "We're going to go in the night of. As soon as that election's over, we’re going in with our lawyers."

7:17 PM · Nov 1, 2020

[stillcool]

1. Youza!...love that guy!

[TwilightZone]

2. As John Roberts said, state legislatures, not courts, determine election law.

That's why all of the talk about Trump being named emperor by the Supreme Court, overriding the laws of maybe half a dozen states, has been a little silly.

[benfranklin1776]

23. Correct, and as Justice Ginsburg noted in one of her many excellent opinions

Arizona Legislature v. Arizona Independent Redistricting Commission, when Article I of the federal Constitution empowers the “legislature” of each state to regulate various aspects of congressional elections, the word “legislature” means the lawmaking process set up by a state’s constitution: Nothing in the federal Constitution, she said, “instructs, nor has this court ever held, that a state legislature” may regulate “federal elections in defiance of the provisions of the state’s constitution.”

Thus, when a state’s highest court interprets its own state’s election law as written by that state’s legislature, as Pennsylvania’s highest court did in ruling that its election code allowed the counting of mail in ballots received three days after election that were mailed by 8pm Election Day, federal courts have no business substituting their own interpretation, nor can state legislatures act independently of a state’s own constitutional structure to appoint electors. This “let’s help Trump win by any means necessary” hackneyed legal theory endorsed by Kavanaugh and Thomas and Alito totally tramples the right wing’s long trumpeted belief in state’s rights. But then as we’ve seen quite clearly by their blessing of right wing power grabbing actions, that was a mere BS fig leaf to justify states denying people the basic constitutional rights that flow from national citizenship in contravention of the intent of the framers of the 14th amendment, which its architects designed to stop post-Civil War suppression of the basic human rights of newly freed slaves by the treasonous Confederates that they foresaw would control those states.

[Ruby Zee]

3. Thank you...

Pennsylvania Attorney General!!

[calimary]

17. Welcome to DU, Ruby Zee!

YES! Thank you, Pennsylvania Attorney General!

The bad guys don't want to leave it at that, but I'm glad that's a big stumbling block now in their way. May there be MANY more!

[Cha]

4. Rt.. IOW.. "Our Elections Are Over When

We Say They're OVER"..

Not when ASSFACE LIES.

[dewsgirl]

5. Go PA!👏

[SheltieLover]

6. Awesome!

[Blue Owl]

7. K&R

[babylonsister]

8. I bet he couldn't afford yet another lawyer.

I think he's tapped, though he always did like to sue to draw things out.

[Harker]

19. Barr will get the taxpayer's team of lawyers

right on that.

[babylonsister]

20. Right! Now I'm projecting...to January. nt

[PA Democrat]

9. Don't mess with PA.

Shapiro is tough and has an impressive track record.

[brewens]

10. Talk about a states rights issue! Of course that normally only applies when states have racist

intentions. They abandon that principal any time they feel like it.

[PoliticAverse]

11. "up to three days after Election Day" - so 4 days after election day they don't count? n/t

[klook]

26. U.S. Supreme Court ruled in October they can count ballots received by Fri. Nov. 6th

as long as they're postmarked by election day:
https://www.npr.org/2020/10/19/922411176/supreme-court-rules-pennsylvania-can-count-ballots-received-after-election-day

The State Supreme Court ruled this way in September, and some Republican goon group challenged that all the way to the USSC, who declined to hear the case.

[yaesu]

12. tRumps going to play his reality show gig to the very last, create as much chaos as he can but

in the end I don't think he gives a rats ass about being a president, just the game of the con.

[leftieNanner]

13. He hates the job

but he likes the power and staying out of prison.

[Tommymac]

21. He needs the money. He's broke.

Gotta pay back Putin don't ya know.

[Orrex]

14. Shapiro does not fuck around.

[soldierant]

27. Reasonable ... he probably has no fucks o give.

[Lonestarblue]

15. At this stage, I consider anyone voting for Trump a supporter of domestic terrorism.

Here’s my message to Trump supporters. If you think it’s perfectly fine to ram cars and buses of a political opponent on one of the busiest highways in America, risking multiple collisions and potential deaths or major injuries for dozens of people, then you are just the same scum as those terrorists on I35. You are no better than the ISIS supporters who think their beliefs are worth beheading innocent people to send a warped message, and I hope you rot in hell.

[Hekate]

16. Preach it!

[thinkingagain]

18. I don't understand why

They don’t use the argument
Of on April 15th as long as you have your taxes post marked by that date they are considered filed.

A vote either in person or postmarked by the election closing time in your state counts.

Taxes and voting an American right

[Tommymac]

22. Josh is The Rock of PA

So glad he is my AG.

[Sugarcoated]

25. He's tough as nails

and whip smart, street smart, too.

[dlk]

24. Trump is freaked out about losing the election & the potential accountability it means

He can’t handle the suspense of waiting for ballots to be counted.