🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Federal Court DENIES Republican effort to block Allegheny County

[Roland99]

Link to tweet

🚨BREAKING: Pennsylvania Federal Court DENIES Republican effort to block Allegheny County from including ballots in certification.

Trump and his allies are now 1-38 in post election litigation.

1-38!

[Demsrule86]

1. Does this end the orange GOP judges quest to stop certification in PA?

[Roland99]

3. Nope. That was supposed to have a hearing this afternoon and on Friday

But, presidential election is already certified. That was done a couple of days ago. The suit to stop certification would only affect down ballot races

[DeminPennswoods]

6. That's something different and it was filed in state, not federal,

court.

[Roland99]

11. That's right. State Supreme Court, right?

[DeminPennswoods]

12. Filed in Commonwealth Court

It seeks to invalidate Act 77 which the R-controlled state legislature passed and Gov Wolf signed that expanded voting by removing the restrictions (must be medically unable to vote in person or document that you will be out of state/area) on absentee voting thus making PA a "no excuse absentee ballot" voting state.

Judge granted a prelim injunction stopping cert of any elections that haven't yet been certified, but presidential vote was certified prior to her order. However, AG Shapiro/Dems appealed directly to the state Supreme Court and the judge has cancelled the hearing she had sched for Friday waiting for the Supreme Court to decide if it wants to accept the state's appeal.

[Roland99]

14. What a tangled web. Makes NFL playoff formulas look like 1+1

[Demsrule86]

10. Thanks!

[DeminPennswoods]

9. No, there's still a suit in Commonwealth Court to

have Act 77 declared unconstitutional and thus invalidate all 2.7M mailed ballots. The judge granted a preliminary injuction and enjoined the state from certifying any results not already certified which the presidential results are. There was supposed to be an evidentiary hearing on Friday.

However, AG Shapiro/Dems skipped right over the Commonwealth Court and appealed directly to the State Supreme Court. After that happened, the Commonwealth Court judge post-poned/canx the hearing scheduled for Friday in case the Supreme Court chooses to take the case.

[PTWB]

13. I doubt there is any real risk of that.

Even if Act 77 is declared unconstitutional we are in no danger of having 2.7M mail-in ballots invalidated. There was ample time to bring the suit prior to the election. At worst, Act 77 would be invalidated for future elections.

[Roland99]

16. Marc Elias just tweeted about it. We're good

Link to tweet

There are lots of things in the world to worry about right now but the Pennsylvania election result is not one of them.

The governor has certified the results pursuant to federal law. Joe Biden will be sworn in on January 20th.

[DeminPennswoods]

17. Yeah, that's what I think, too.

Any ruling that Act 77 is unconstitutional would not be retroactive. If so, all the June primary results would be invalidated, too.

[Roland99]

18. I also look at Bush v Gore. SCOTUS simply said stop counting. Certify

[DeminPennswoods]

21. Remember this is PA state.commonwealth court, not federal court

nt

[Roland99]

24. Right. But the reasoning holds

[LeftInTX]

35. We had a similar thing happen in Texas

The governor wrote an EO to expand early voting in the July primary runoff..

Then, on July 27th, he wrote an EO to expand early voting in the November election.

Allen West sued on Sept 23rd saying it was unconstitutional (similar to the way Act 77 could be considered unconstitutional). Repubs were saying, "Don't vote the first week of early voting, cuz your vote will get thrown out".

https://www.texastribune.org/2020/09/23/texas-republicans-greg-abbott-early-voting/

The Texas Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a bid by leading state Republicans to overturn Gov. Greg Abbott’s order that added six days of early voting as a pandemic safety measure.
https://www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/10/07/texas-supreme-court-rejects-gop-leaders-bid-limit-voting-time/5909352002/

They also tried to throw out 127,000 Harris County votes.

Texas Supreme Court rejects effort to throw out 127,000 Harris County votes
https://wacotrib.com/news/state-and-regional/lawsuit-throw-out-127-000-texas-votes-from-drive-thru-sites-in-houston/article_45dff7c0-1be7-11eb-b5f6-d799f22930ad.html

Our State Supreme Court is all Republican. Everything is Republican in this state.

[DeminPennswoods]

19. In fact, Act 77 included a provision allowing for

challenges within a 180 day window. Not a peep before now.

[PTWB]

20. The window is relatively meaningless.

An unconstitutional law cannot attach a time limit to challenge its constitutionality to the law itself.

[DeminPennswoods]

22. State Rs wrote it, not me.

[Demsrule86]

23. OK, I bet it is gone by Thursday.

[Blue Owl]

2. Wompity Womp Womp Womp

[warmfeet]

15. I am going to assume that there is a very high waterfall

at the end of this run.

Hopefully, it is several thousand feet high.

Ironically, the only thing the investigators will find is a pair of very tiny hands and a few strands of hair, dyed yellow.

[Evolve Dammit]

27. great graphic!

[ailsagirl]

31. ... proclaiming all the while that he won...

[flying rabbit]

33. Snagging this one

[DeminPennswoods]

4. The PA supreme court also declined to revisit

it's decision to allow some 2 or 3 thousand ballots that were without a hand-written date from the voter but received before the 8PM deadline on election day.

[Cha]

5. Rt! TY Marc!

[Cha]

7. trump & his Bad Faith thugs.. 1-38

[grumpyduck]

8. I think his campaign should apply for

a Guinness record for the most losses.

Or maybe they're holding off for a higher count?

[world wide wally]

25. 1-38?....... Fire the coach already

[Initech]

26. Shit, even Tom Brady and Bill Belicheck would throw in the towel on those numbers!

[Initech]

28. Holy shit! I think the Generals have a better win - loss record against the Harlem Globetrotters!

[Rice4VP]

29. So, what is this story?

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-judge-halts-election-certification-mail-in-vote-lawsuit


I’ve been driving since 1pm so don’t know what’s the latest

[questionseverything]

34. That happened earlier then the state took them to state Supreme Court and won

If I understand correctly

[ailsagirl]

30. YAY!!!!!

[Retrograde]

32. I'm confused - which case is this again?

Can we start numbering them so it's easier to keep track of all these suits. Maybe something like PA-11-25-01 for the first one filed today, and so on?