This tweet, in other words, means as much as Trump’s tweet trying to activate the DPA last spring. Missouri has to actually file papers with the Court. This ain’t them.Election integrity is central to our republic. And I will defend it at every turn.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) December 9, 2020
As I have in other cases - I will help lead the effort in support of Texas’ #SCOTUS filing today.
Missouri is in the fight. https://t.co/V3aLHrYnOF
Meanwhile, Donald Trump leegill skollar is awake.
More proof it’s all about the grift. No, Trump doesn’t know what he’s talking about, but his lawyers have probably told him they’ll “intervene.” The Court has already set tomorrow for the deadline for briefs, indicating this will go the way of the other case dismissed yesterday. Trump may imagine he’s going to get his Bush v. Gore. But he’s also chasing those $$$. As for the quality of the Texas suit, Rick Hasen sums it up quite nicely:The central purpose of #SCOTUS’s “original” jurisdiction is for disputes between states that can’t be resolved elsewhere.
— Steve Vladeck (@steve_vladeck) December 9, 2020
Successful intervention by another party would prove that the dispute *could* be resolved elsewhere — and that there’s nothing unique about Texas’s claims. pic.twitter.com/lZ1AB9kNWE
My view in brief: this is a press release masquerading as a lawsuit. Texas doesn’t have standing to raise these claims as it has no say over how other states choose electors; it could raise these issues in other cases and does not need to go straight to the Supreme Court; it waited too late to sue; the remedy Texas suggests of disenfranchising tens of millions of voters after the fact is unconstitutional; there’s no reason to believe the voting conducted in any of the states was done unconstitutionally; it’t too late for the Supreme Court to grant a remedy even if the claims were meritorious (they are not).What utter garbage. Dangerous garbage, but garbage.
As I noted earlier, the Texas Solicitor General nor anyone from his office signed this pleading. They have to go before the Court, they know better than to stain their credibility with this slop. As Hasen notes, this is all too late (that's where laches keeps coming up. You can't wait until you lose the election and then complain about how the election was conducted, such as how ballots were received or what machines were used to count them). Elections in this country decide things, and losers always accept that, or think they've been cheated. Even if they have, the courts don't order new elections, or place the losers in office by judicial fiat.
Over. Over. Over. When you're seeing lawyers refuse to represent these claims, you know how bad it is.
I'm suspecting that if disaster does come and the country splits, the general lines of the states in which the AGs signed on to this disgusting thing might be roughly the boundaries.
ReplyDeleteThe fact is that the Republican party has been on the road to fascist, one-party-only acceptable rule for a long time, it has gotten steadily worse and apparently it will not be a trend that stops when it's gotten as-bad-as at some point.