Trump campaign brings new U.S. Supreme Court challenge over Pennsylvania's 2020 election

[brooklynite]

Source: Philadelphia Inquirer

President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to step in and overturn several decisions the Pennsylvania Supreme Court made regarding the 2020 election, saying the court overstepped its bounds and “the outcome of the election for the Presidency of the United States hangs in the balance.”

The campaign on Sunday filed a cert petition and a motion to expedite, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to fast-track the case because of the impending Jan. 6 meeting of Congress to receive the Electoral College results and the Jan. 20 inauguration.

The challenge doesn’t center on any claims of voter fraud, despite Trump’s repeated use of baseless conspiracy theories to attack the election. Instead, it challenges three Pennsylvania Supreme Court decisions on mail ballots and says the state court overstepped its constitutional role. Those opinions, which resolved multiple cases, prohibited counties from comparing mail ballot signatures to those on file; said campaigns and political parties can’t challenge ballots as they are being processed and counted; allowed limitations on observers to the vote count in Philadelphia; and allowed ballots to count even if voters had forgotten to fill out the address or date on the envelope.

In making those decisions, the campaign argues, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court violated the U.S. Constitution in three ways: its due process clause; its equal protection guarantees, by treating ballots differently in different counties; and by taking the state legislature’s power to determine how federal elections are run.

Read more: https://www.inquirer.com/politics/election/trump-appeals-pa-supreme-court-2020-election-decisions-20201220.html

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Thank you Sir, may I have another!

[Marthe48]

1. For every case they file another American gets his wings

n/t

[George II]

19. Thanks Donnie:

[DownriverDem]

35. They will keep on

filing all the way until Jan 20th. I am incensed, disgusted & so hate to have to still be hearing about them trying to use the courts.

[Blue Owl]

2. tRump's droppin' lawsuits like he's on his gold toilet

[Orrex]

3. This nation will see no greater day than the day Trump dies

Whether it's from COVID or a massive stroke or falling into and drowning in an industrial vat of liquefied pig shit, it doesn't matter.

No event in the nation's history will be better for the country than his last breath.

Ratifying the Constitution? Pretty good.
Appomattox? A job well done.
V-Day? Congratulations to all involved.

But the day Trump dies? Unprecedented in its glory and magnificence.



I abhor the initiation of violence, but I'll have no objection if nature takes its course with this obese and pampered septuagenarian.

[still_one]

5. +++

[Thekaspervote]

15. ☝️☝️☝️☝️☝️

[Rebl2]

17. Yea

except we still have that daughter and two sons unfortunately.

[Escurumbele]

20. How about if we all put our minds together and convince ourselves that justice will be done

that all the trump creeps will be prosecuted and sent to jail, and that we will never see them again?

I dislike the defeatist attitude the media and many of us take giving this sense of perpetuity to these thugs. The reality is and must be that they will be taken to trial for their crimes, and that there are so many crimes they will all end up behind bars where they belong, and like Charles Manson, we will only hear about them when they leave the earth.

Lets focus on that, not on the buffoon running on 2024, or his kids, and kids-in-law being around to continue infecting the earth.

[niyad]

26. I might actually spring for Champagne, rather than mere sparkling wine.

[dalton99a]

39. +1. And the world will be a better place without his evil presence.

[LiberalFighter]

40. Hmm What would be a good way to send him out?

Raze any of his buildings still remaining?

Blow up Mara-A-Lago?

Scotland revokes all rights in their country?

Champagne and Fireworks?

Trump blimp?

Empty seats?

Headlines with number of Covid-19 deaths?

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

45. I, for one, refuse to piss on Fat Donnie's grave.

I hate to stand in long lines.

[Irish_Dem]

4. The guy who pays no taxes wastes millions of taxpayer dollars clogging up the court system. nt

[bucolic_frolic]

6. While court outcomes sometimes depend on the placement or absence of a comma

hairsplitting is not a very well received or productive strategy, especially when significant legal opinions have already been rendered.

Trump's lawsuits will be rendered like a slab of bacon.

Porky Trump! Oink! Oink!

[no_hypocrisy]

7. The Court won't take it. It's a moot case as the Electoral College has voted.

[cstanleytech]

44. Which is probably what they will use to deny this request by Trump.

[Chainfire]

8. More of the same old ****

I guess Trump figures he can lose a hundred times but he only has to win once.

[AllaN01Bear]

9. yawn, i think ill go back to bed now .

[The Jungle 1]

10. He has no standing. The case will get tossed.

I thought repukes loved states rights?

[LiberalLovinLug]

11. Okay, yet another opportunity to charge them with an abuse of the courts time

for bringing in yet another frivolous law suit. If the courts do not start fining them big, and threats of jail time if they persist, they will keep this up right up to Jan. 20. Their plan of course is to create enough smoke and keep it smokey for as long as possible.

[SWBTATTReg]

12. "the outcome of the election for the Presidency of the United States hangs in the balance."

Yes, Mr. Biden won!!! There is nothing left to do, other than wait for Jan. 20, 2020...

[moose65]

27. I think you mean 2021

😃

[SWBTATTReg]

46. Yeah, I did. Good grief, my senior moment! Ha ha heh, thanks for catching, man...

take care!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

13. The only thing hanging in the balance is my ability to keep my lunch down if he keeps this up.

Dave Weigel Retweeted

The new Trump campaign cert petition is an Article II-based challenge to three
@SupremeCtofPA
decisions, the most *recent* of which was issued 27 days ago.

Of note, I want to flag this rather incendiary language from the motion for expedited treatement. Reverse or we'll riot?

Link to tweet

[scarletwoman]

30. "Nice little country you got here. Be a shame if anything messes it up."

[SWBTATTReg]

47. Man, this guy is right. This is scary info., but I'd like to think that enough of us...

will prevail in all walks of life across the Country in all categories of being American citizens everywhere, and where are these thugs everywhere that are supposedly stopping us from doing anything, other than one city at a time? We're are everywhere. We're watching and for the most part, the idiots don't realize that our watching is being recorded for posterity's sake too. They don't know the nature of the digital world. Our advantage now.

This is a threat, plain and simple.

The disruption that these thugs promised is far far overstated.

...

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. Here's the cert petition.

New. Via
@jeremyrroebuck
, here's the cert petition.

Link to tweet

[Brother Buzz]

16. I'll defer to Einstein on this one

[iluvtennis]

23. +1000. nt

[Escurumbele]

18. They are cucarachas, although one fumigates, sprays anti-roach substances

they keep coming, they keep wanting to destroy.

[Initech]

21. This dead horse has been beaten, shot, stabbed, run over with a steamroller, beaten again...

Set on fire, and then had its' ashes pulverized in a food processor. It's dust at this point, seriously. Give it up, Donny.

[iluvtennis]

22. trump lost Pennsylvania by over 81,000 votes. Even if he got PA's 20 electoral votes,

Biden would still win the EC 286 to 252 (...from 306 to 232..)

This latest tactic is absurd just like the prior ones.

[pnwmom]

29. They still have plenty of time to submit worthless lawsuits for the other swing states. nt

[Jon King]

24. His cultists are sending him $5/month....

He has a bunch of supporters who signed up for the $4.99/month donation to 'contest the election'. So they need to file some suits on a regular basis to keep bringing in the money. Its really that simple....mentioning military led recounts, contesting the Jan 6th in Congress, bogus suits, its all just part of his business plan.

Once we accept it for what it is, just a conman stealing from the gullible, not much else matters. So he holds rallies for the next few years to steal more of there money, oh well. The world is moving on Jan 20th, I doubt CNN and MSNBC and the networks pay much attention to him after that. Joe beat Trump in the town hall ratings, really no point in covering him once he is out of office.

[Initech]

37. Don't delay, eternal happiness is just $5 away!

[marmar]

25. So tired of this bullshit.

[Javaman]

28. How can they say, "go piss up a rope" in legalese?

[Talitha]

31. All I want for Christmas is Trump's obituary...

[Renew Deal]

32. The Supreme Court has stayed away from all of these state court rulings.

[Quemado]

33. I would love to see Trump leave the White House gagged and in a straight-jacket.

[DFW]

34. I think we're getting close to where his own nominees to the Court will be happiest when he leaves

Being an associate Justice on the Supreme Court must be rapidly losing it's prestige when the president who nominated you is a deteriorating mental case who was never much of an intellect to begin with.

[RDANGELO]

36. I am beginning to think that he is really afraid of going to jail.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

38. How many times do they have to tell him to fuck off?

[oldsoftie]

41. I dont see why signature verification would be prohibited.

How else are you going to verify the voter sending in the ballot?
We did it in GA without any problems other than trumps creation.

[Greg K]

43. The issue was that some counties allowed such ballots to be "cured" and others did not.

But

- In the counties that didn't cure ballots, in most cases, even in red counties, this impacted Democratic voters more anyway, since they were the ones who were doing the majority of the mail-in ballots everywhere.

- The number of "cured" ballots wouldn't be enough to change the outcome of the election anyway.

https://www.factcheck.org/2020/11/ballot-curing-in-pennsylvania/

[BumRushDaShow]

42. Time to start sanctioning for frivolous lawsuits.

[andym]

48. Trying to use Bush V Gore

But that decision is not supposed to set any precedent.