How The SCOTUS Should Handle Texas' Frivolous Request To Overturn The Results of The 2020 Presidential Election...
Today while doing the usual perusing the net for daily news storing I happened upon the following article at SCOTUS blog . I share the authors thoughts and thought the readership of this weblog may enjoy the article as well. Click on Mr. Goldstein's name below for info. Tom Goldstein Publisher Posted Fri, December 11th, 2020 2:06 pm Editorial: Don’t just deny Texas’ original action. Decimate it. Texas’ attempt to bring an original action challenging the election results in four states is not a serious legal claim in a legitimate procedural posture, for reasons that many people have already given and that I will not repeat here. The easy thing for the Supreme Court to do is simply deny Texas permission to file the complaint (and deny the motions to intervene as moot) and be done with it. No fuss, no muss. But the court should do more. It is perfectly ordinary and appropriate for the justices to write an opinion explaining the various reasons why they are...