U.S. Supreme Court brings end to another Republican election challenge
Source: Reuters
(Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday brought an end to another lawsuit related to the Nov. 3 presidential election filed by a Republican former congressional candidate who had challenged the extension of Pennsylvania's deadline to receive mail-in ballots.
The justices, in a brief order, decided that the dispute was moot. They threw out a Nov. 13 decision by the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia that found the candidate, Jim Bognet, as well as four individual voters, did not have legal standing to challenge the ballot deadline extension.
Bognet, who lost his race for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives to Democratic rival Matt Cartwright, and the voters had filed the suit before the election, challenging a Sept. 17 ruling by Pennsylvania's top court ordering officials to count mail-in ballots that were postmarked by Election Day and received up to three days later.
The high court's action in the lingering dispute was expected as it has previously rejected many others pursued by former President Donald Trump and his allies related to the presidential election.
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calimary
(80,693 posts)should likewise be thrown out. Theyre bunk. And they have no merit. Absolutely NONE.
PJMcK
(21,916 posts)Wow, the Deep State controls everything! (snide wink)
Well, they did win one little procedural case but it was meaningless.
struggle4progress
(118,032 posts)Apr 19, 2021,09:59am EST
Alison Durkee
Forbes Staff
... The Supreme Court vacated the decision Monday and directed the lower appeals court to dismiss the case as moot, which is what the GOP plaintiffs wanted the court to do in the event they decided not to take up the case ,,,
"A majority of Supreme Court justices could well believe that state legislatures have extraordinary power when it comes to setting the rules for federal elections, even if it means overruling state supreme courts relying on state constitutions to limit legislative power," election law expert Rick Hasen told CNN Saturday about the potential ramifications if the Supreme Court had taken up the case. "It would be a remarkable shift in election power in the states" ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/alisondurkee/2021/04/19/supreme-court-throws-out-final-gop-2020-election-case/?sh=27d2b5d028ed
mpcamb
(2,854 posts)disagreeing.
It's worth dragging those number in front of the 30% who (bullshit) say there was fraud.
All of the challenges involved republican states and mostly with republican judges.