GOP will ask Supreme Court to limit mail voting in Pennsylvania in first post-RBG test

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Last edited Tue Sep 22, 2020, 04:59 PM - Edit history (1)

Republicans plan to ask the Supreme Court to review a major Pennsylvania state court ruling that extended the due date for mail ballots in the key battleground state, teeing up the first test for the Supreme Court since the death of its liberal leader Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

The GOP legal strategy, which was revealed in a pair of court documents filed overnight and Tuesday morning, has not been previously reported.

The development comes after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dealt Republicans a major blow last week in a bitterly partisan election lawsuit that could help determine whether President Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden takes the Keystone State, which Trump won in 2016 by just over 44,000 votes.

The expected petition to the Supreme Court comes just days after Ginsburg’s death from cancer last Friday injected further uncertainty into a chaotic 2020 presidential contest that is on track to be the most intensely litigated election cycle in U.S. history.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/517587-gop-will-ask-supreme-court-to-limit-mail-voting-in-pennsylvania-in

Crapping their pants in fear of how badly they're going to lose.

[madaboutharry]

1. Manipulating the vote count is so very "fill in autocrat of your choice here" of them.

Republicans hate democracy.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Trump is going to lose.

And this is a loser move.

[LisaL]

3. Why not just ask the Supreme Court to cancel elections and make Trump

a king for life?

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

13. I know, right.

I mean why be only quite blatant. Go all the way.

[Thekaspervote]

4. Anybody but me think they will not hear that ..being a state issue?

[regnaD kciN]

5. Just like they didn't overrule Florida in 2000...?

[Thekaspervote]

7. That is an entirely different issue..period

[Buckeyeblue]

6. I think the precedent in Bush/Gore is that election decisions are up to states.

[Thekaspervote]

8. This

[Stallion]

9. No They Ruled on Equal Protection Constitutional Grounds and Took Decision Away from Florida S.C.

which had ordered continued recount

Generally though the SCOTUS will not interfere with State Supreme Court decisions especially this close to the election

[rsdsharp]

12. Sorry, but no.

The Court in Bush v. Gore took great care to explicitly state that it had no precedential value.

[regnaD kciN]

14. And I'm sure they'll declare the same...

... when they issue another “just this once” ruling ordering PA to restrict mail-in voting.

[FBaggins]

10. Post-RBG doesn't matter here

They either have five votes or they don't. Four won't get it done if the lower court ruled against them.

[Stallion]

11. Right 4-4 Tie Means State Court Decision Stands

[regnaD kciN]

15. Which is why...

...they’ll rush through the nominee in record time, and file the suit the minute she’s seated.

[Statistical]

16. The good news is if this is heard prior to the new justice being seated a tie means it stands.

[Grins]

17. Three days?

“Under the ruling, Pennsylvania must accept ballots postmarked by Election Day, as long as they arrive within three days.”

Three?
In Calif. it’s 7.
In Illinois it’s 14!