Supreme Court rejects appeals from Pubs and Trump over contested 2020 Voting Rules.

[bullitpdq68]

Well this should settle it....But I am sure Trump and others will still claim the election was stolen.

Supreme Court rejects appeals from Republicans, Trump over contested 2020 voting rules in key battleground states

Republicans had argued changes in voting rules were illegal.

abcnews.go.com

 

[bullitpdq68]

I guess old Josh Hawley was not as smart as he thought he was about Pennsylvania and thier constitution.

 

[MGHS]

Clarence Thomas issues forceful dissent from Supreme Court decision not to hear Pennsylvania election case - Washington Examiner

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a forceful dissent from the Supreme Court’s decision to refuse hearing a Republican challenge of a Pennsylvania state court decision allowing ballots that were received up to three days after Election Day to be counted in November’s election.“One wonders what the...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Big Mistake by the court.....they had a Chance to rule and end any ambiguity in future elections.

 

[bullitpdq68]

Clarence Thomas issues forceful dissent from Supreme Court decision not to hear Pennsylvania election case - Washington Examiner

Justice Clarence Thomas wrote a forceful dissent from the Supreme Court’s decision to refuse hearing a Republican challenge of a Pennsylvania state court decision allowing ballots that were received up to three days after Election Day to be counted in November’s election.“One wonders what the...

www.washingtonexaminer.com

Big Mistake by the court.....they had a Chance to rule and end any ambiguity in future elections.

Yeah but it Seems only Clarence Thomas had any issue with it? You would think with a Conservative majority you would have seen more side with Clarence if that was truly the case.....Or Trump's picks really are not that smart and deserving to be on the high court as many Conservatives would think???? And well then I think both Conservatives and Liberals might agree on that....again that is if you side with Clarence the only conservative to side with Trump....Or maybe it is that they are smarter than what the Liberals actually thought....

 

[MGHS]

Thomas really is the Only true Conservative with any backbone and foresight. The others will hopefully protect the 2nd amd. and stop other insane progressive law suits but other than that the new guard is spineless .

 

[r14veer]

Thomas really is the Only true Conservative with any backbone and foresight. The others will hopefully protect the 2nd amd. and stop other insane progressive law suits but other than that the new guard is spineless .

When I hear about "the only true conservative" it always seems that the requirements differ slightly from person to person, which is normal, by the way. Which means that there is no such thing; it, like everything, is a spectrum. The many, many conservatives I know (but not necessarily "all conservatives") seem to have the hardest time understanding this concept (though this does not absolve all liberals, many are just as bad): that nearly nothing is as simple as black and white, that most of life exists on a spectrum. It is, of course, much less intellectually taxing to think in binary terms; particularly if it reinforces our already-held beliefs and suppositions.

 

[MGHS]

Yes YES the Grey area's and that is the Norm and what it means to be a Conservative can ebb and flow with the times. Just as what it means to be a Liberal ebb's and Flows.....leftist are often now labeled as Liberals ....when Liberals are closer to Conservatives than Leftist...

But that is not the Point, Thomas is Principled and is willing to take the Hard path for the Betterment of America and it's future elections. He understands without Rules and Clearly Defined rules in Elections that the publics Trust in the System will hit a boiling point.

The Rest of the court is willing to just wait and see and hope it blows over and Normal returns.

 

[3Rfan]

Yes YES the Grey area's and that is the Norm and what it means to be a Conservative can ebb and flow with the times. Just as what it means to be a Liberal ebb's and Flows.....leftist are often now labeled as Liberals ....when Liberals are closer to Conservatives than Leftist...

But that is not the Point, Thomas is Principled and is willing to take the Hard path for the Betterment of America and it's future elections. He understands without Rules and Clearly Defined rules in Elections that the publics Trust in the System will hit a boiling point.

The Rest of the court is willing to just wait and see and hope it blows over and Normal returns.

So Thomas was the only dissenting vote and you think that makes him the only SC Judge that is smart enough to know what should be done? The court is pretty well packed with conservative appointments now, I guess you want it to be 9-0.

 

[Expect2Win]

Alito and Gorsuch also voted with Thomas, Thomas just wrote the dissent.
Thomas is not principled, he is consistently entangled in ethical dilemmas.

 

[r14veer]

Yes YES the Grey area's and that is the Norm and what it means to be a Conservative can ebb and flow with the times. Just as what it means to be a Liberal ebb's and Flows.....leftist are often now labeled as Liberals ....when Liberals are closer to Conservatives than Leftist...

But that is not the Point, Thomas is Principled and is willing to take the Hard path for the Betterment of America and it's future elections. He understands without Rules and Clearly Defined rules in Elections that the publics Trust in the System will hit a boiling point.

The Rest of the court is willing to just wait and see and hope it blows over and Normal returns.

By entertaining the notion that voter fraud (particularly mail-in voter fraud according to Justice Thomas' dissent, which was not litigated in any of the former president's election cases) is a big problem, without the commensurate evidence that is required to prove such a claim, Thomas along with many other conservatives creates a perceived problem where none exists.

According to the Heritage Foundation (a conservative organization), on a website they have specifically for showcasing how much election fraud there is, there were 1,311 proven cases of voter fraud...since 1979. Most of them involved falsifying petition signatures for local candidates or other schemes for local candidates. Even if every single one of those cases had taken place in 2020, do you know how many presidential votes they would affect? A couple hundred, maybe. Should these be eliminated if possible? Yes, of course. Are they a rampant problem with our system? Absolutely not.

 

[Expect2Win]

Alito isn't wrong. There were a lot of decisions made really quickly because of the pandemic. All of this should have been decided long before the election. Several people failed to have the imagination to prepare for an election in a pandemic.
Congress needs to set a straightforward policy on what can and can not be allowed, and who should be allowed to control the policies during an election. So we don't have a wild west in election policies thrown together at the last minute.

 

[kaskaskiakid]

When I hear about "the only true conservative" it always seems that the requirements differ slightly from person to person, which is normal, by the way. Which means that there is no such thing; it, like everything, is a spectrum. The many, many conservatives I know (but not necessarily "all conservatives") seem to have the hardest time understanding this concept (though this does not absolve all liberals, many are just as bad): that nearly nothing is as simple as black and white, that most of life exists on a spectrum. It is, of course, much less intellectually taxing to think in binary terms; particularly if it reinforces our already-held beliefs and suppositions.

The exception being for the past 4 years conservatives have all thought the same - whatever Trump told them to think.

 

[3Rfan]

Alito and Gorsuch also voted with Thomas, Thomas just wrote the dissent.
Thomas is not principled, he is consistently entangled in ethical dilemmas.

My bad, all the talk I've seen or heard has been about Thomas. Still make them smarter about the decision than those who voted the other way.

 

[HomeyR]

Alito isn't wrong. There were a lot of decisions made really quickly because of the pandemic. All of this should have been decided long before the election. Several people failed to have the imagination to prepare for an election in a pandemic.
Congress needs to set a straightforward policy on what can and can not be allowed, and who should be allowed to control the policies during an election. So we don't have a wild west in election policies thrown together at the last minute.

It wasn't for lack of trying in the house... no legislation got thru Mc Connell in the senate.

 

[3Rfan]

It wasn't for lack of trying in the house... no legislation got thru Mc Connell in the senate.

Congress does NOT control what states do in their elections. I think somebody somewhere should get them all on the same page for the presidential election but I don't know how you do that when each states controls how elections are run in their state. Seems to me it should be the governors, or maybe AG's, get together and come up with a way to do this regardless of which party is in control at the time and do it the same way every time. There is really goofy voting rules out there.