On Sunday, the Trump campaign filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, asking for the high court to overturn decisions made by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that changed the state’s mail-in ballot laws to help serve Democrat turnout goals. In a statement, Trump’s lawyers said that the Pennsylvania court’s rulings were violations of both the Constitution and the Supreme Court decision in 2000’s Bush v. Gore case.
BREAKING: Eat This - Never Forget A Single Thing Again
“Donald J. Trump for President, Inc., President Trump’s campaign committee, today filed a petition for writ of certiorari to the US. Supreme Court to reverse a trio of Pennsylvania Supreme Court cases which illegally changed Pennsylvania’s mail balloting law immediately before and after the 2020 presidential election in violation of Article II of the United States Constitution and Bush v. Gore,” the campaign said in a press release.
“This represents the Campaign’s first independent U.S. Supreme Court filing and seeks relief based on the same Constitutional arguments successfully raised in Bush v. Gore,” the release continued. “This petition follows a related Pennsylvania case where Justice Alito and two other justices observed ‘the constitutionality of the [Pennsylvania] Supreme Court’s decision [extending the statutory deadline for receipt of mail ballots from 8 pm on election day to 5 pm three days later] … has national importance, and there is a strong likelihood that the State Supreme Court decision violates the Federal Constitution.”
Unfortunately, there’s little reason for us to get our hopes up. For one thing, this involves the same legal theories the Supreme Court rejected when Pennsylvania Republicans filed suit earlier this month. It’s difficult to imagine why the justices would see things differently just because Rudy Giuliani is leading the charge this time around.
And even if the case is successful and the Supreme Court overturns the Pennsylvania results, it would not be enough to change the overall result of the 2020 election. Joe Biden has a comfortable Electoral College lead, and losing the state’s 20 votes would not change the tally significantly enough to set Trump up for a second term.
Some may ask then, why bother?
TRENDING: 1 Cup of This Melts Belly and Arm Fat (Take Before Bed)
Well, there are important legal and constitutional questions on the line here, and they need to be addressed by the nation’s high court. Quite simply, in Pennsylvania (and they’re not the only state), we saw unelected officials usurp the power of their state legislators to make last-second changes to the rules. Why? To ensure that anyone and everyone could get their hands on a mail-in ballot in the age of COVID. But even if you conclude that this was a noble goal, these changes were made in unfair, illegal ways that cannot stand up to serious judicial scrutiny.
And if they aren’t challenged, the door will be wide open for Democrats to do the same thing (only worse) the next time around.
;void(0);){kind=link}