Pa. Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign claim that Republicans lacked access to Philly vote count

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that Republican monitors observing vote counting in Philadelphia were given sufficient access under state law to view the proceedings. In a 5-2 decision, the court overturned a lower court decision that ordered monitors with President Donald Trump’s campaign be allowed within six feet of tables where ballots were being tallied.

In its opinion, the Supreme Court found that the Philadelphia Board of Elections complied with requirements for observer access from the moment the first votes were counted. “We conclude the board did not act contrary to the law in fashioning its regulations governing the positioning of candidate representatives,” Justice Debra Todd wrote for the majority. “Critically, we find the board’s regulations … were reasonable.”

The came even as Trump campaign attorneys were pressing the issue in a federal court in Williamsport, asking a judge to bar the state from certifying the vote based, in part, on the limited access they claimed vote-counting observers had in Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties.

Trump observers complained that in Philadelphia they were originally positioned between 13 feet and up to 100 feet away from counting tables and, therefore, couldn’t meaningfully see ballots as they were counted.


Read more: https://www.inquirer.com/news/trump-pennsylvania-lawsuit-election-results-rudy-giuliani-hearing-case-williamsport-20201117.html

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[Iliyah]

1. Both Democrats and republicans were there for the mail in count . ..

what total BS. ugh, I truly despise these people.

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The GOP goons wanted to intimidate

Hell, the city was streaming the whole process 24/7, from November 3rd @ 7 am EST until today at around 11:15 am EST, when they finally stopped the stream (and put me into withdrawal )

There was a good-sized group canvassing in the Convention Center site this morning not long before they finally cut the feed (the far right section has the tables of workers pulling ballots from envelopes and the foreground to the left are the scanning machines where the operators would have taken the bins of the ballots and run them through -

[sheshe2]

2. Another one goes down in flames!

[BumRushDaShow]

7. YES!

I hope they are done with the state courts now. They all need to be disbarred.

[sheshe2]

10. Especially Rudi!

[BumRushDaShow]

14. I think his case is Federal and that is supposed to be today (this afternoon)

I hope that goes

[sheshe2]

15. From your lips to the goddesses ear!

[Cha]

3. Another Bullshit lawsuit REJECTED!

Thank Goodness the Court did 5-2! And, overturned a lower court's decision!

Mahalo, BRDS!! So grateful!!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. And that court is majority Democratic Cha - 5(D) - 2(R)

[Cha]

5. Oh wow.. along partisan lines.. I

wondered about that. TY.

So the two R judges succumbed to trump rather than follow the law?

[BumRushDaShow]

8. They have tended to do that

We have elected Justices for the state Supreme Court who have 10 year terms I believe and they rotate through retentions. The last set got us to this level of a majority after a couple retirements.

It was this group of Justices who made them re-draw the Congressional districts here due to their extreme gerrymandering and the SCOTUS upheld the State Supreme Court rulings, right before the 2018 tsunami election.

We were finally able to take our Congressional delegation from 13(R) - 5(D) to 9(R) - 9(D).

[Cha]

9. That is Huge about the gerrymandering

fair changes. I do remember reading about that now!

TY!

[BumRushDaShow]

13. It was a huge difference and a simple legal argument with respect to the state Constitution

which required that the lines be "compact and contiguous" and they most certainly weren't!

And since they were drawn at a time when we had a GOP governor, a newly-elected GOP-majority state legislature (where Democrats lost control of the State House), and GOP-majority State Supreme Court, they weren't going to redraw them any time soon once tehy gerrymandered them, and only agreed to re-do the state legislative districts a couple years after the initial map.

Once we got a Democratic governor and Democratic-majority State Supreme Court, stuff FINALLY started moving... and just in time!

[Cha]

16. Just in Time.. Precisely! The Dem Gov

made them Fair.. the Repubs CHEATED.. Same ol SHIT.

Thank you for that history, BRDS!

[riversedge]

11. another one bites the dust!! Tired of winning Trump??

[skip fox]

12. Another day, another defeat.

[bucolic_frolic]

17. I'm thinking Trump will try to roll his own

series of lawsuits into one big suit and head to the SCOTUS and ask to overturn or invalidate the whole election.

[BumRushDaShow]

18. Probably

It would be a Hail Mary pass...

Thing is, and this might change, it seems the SCOTUS has generally stayed out of state issues regarding how the elections are run - to the point of all the way back when Roberts essentially killed the heart of the VRA by ditching Section 4 (and by default, Section 5) for pre-clearance on how states handled their elections and the targeting of voter suppression tactics by certain states.

[Cha]

19. With what proof? there is none.

[bucolic_frolic]

20. The proof is in the whine

No one would listen to my lawsuits!!!! Therefore I have been treated so unfairly, and the election wasn't fair!

[Cha]

21. The highest court should order trump

to be taken in for a mental examination.

Reality Vs Insanity.

[bucolic_frolic]

22. BINGO!

You've run the table.

[Cha]

23. Thank You!

In a just world they would.