Supreme Court Rejects Republican Challenge to Pennsylvania Vote

In a one-sentence order, the court refused to overturn election results that had already been certified and submitted.

As the seriously flawed and damaged donald j. trump continues his lies and conspiracies aimed at getting state legislatures, the lower courts, and the SCOTUS to overturn the LEGITIMATE AND SECURE 2020 NATIONAL ELECTION in his efforts to deny the WILL OF THE PEOPLE it is heartwarming and most satisfying to see the SCOTUS tell the Lying Moron n Chief to essentially go pound sand. SO VERY rewarding.

Now on to the super great news...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday refused a request from Pennsylvania Republicans to overturn the state’s election results. The justices said they would not block a ruling from Pennsylvania’s highest court that had rejected a challenge to the use of mail ballots in the state. The Supreme Court’s order was all of one sentence, and there were no noted dissents.

The request that the Supreme Court intercede had faced substantial legal hurdles, as it was filed long after the enactment of the challenged statute that allowed mailed ballots and was based on questions of state rather than federal law.

In late November, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against the plaintiffs, led by Representative Mike Kelly, a Republican, on the first ground, saying they could have challenged a 2019 law allowing vote by mail for any reason more than a year ago.

“At the time this action was filed on Nov. 21, 2020, millions of Pennsylvania voters had already expressed their will in both the June 2020 primary election and the November 2020 general election,” the court said. “Petitioners failed to act with due diligence in presenting the instant claim. Equally clear is the substantial prejudice arising from petitioners’ failure to institute promptly a facial challenge to the mail-in voting statutory scheme, as such inaction would result in the disenfranchisement of millions of Pennsylvania voters.”

The plaintiffs had asked the state court to nullify mailed ballots after the fact or to direct the State Legislature to pick Pennsylvania’s electors.

The filing in the U.S. Supreme Court sought an order telling state officials not to take further actions to certify the vote in Pennsylvania or “to nullify any such actions already taken” while the plaintiffs pursued an appeal. The request was directed to Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., the member of the court responsible for emergency applications concerning rulings in the state.

The filing took issue with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s interpretation of state law. The U.S. Supreme Court does not ordinarily second-guess such rulings.

In urging the justices not to intercede, lawyers for the state said the Republicans’ requests were “an affront to constitutional democracy.”

“Petitioners ask this court to undertake one of the most dramatic, disruptive invocations of judicial power in the history of the Republic,” they wrote. “No court has ever issued an order nullifying a governor’s certification of presidential election results.”

So the "man" who won the 2016 election on his great con lost the 2020 election because a large majority of citizens voted against his ineptitude, dishonesty, corruption, racism, and indecency towards all others who disagreed with or failed to support him exactly as he thought they should. A mark of a person with extreme narcissistic personality disorder.

But what is and remains important is that the SOB is gone from our White House at 12 noon January 20, 2021. Halleluiah!!