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Posted on 10/26/2020 8:22:39 PM PDT by be-baw
Amy Barrett will decide key Pennsylvania ballot case
Republicans return to Supreme Court to challenge extended deadline for mail-in ballots
Last Monday, the Supreme Court upheld a decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court that allows the state to count mailed-in ballots received within three days after the election, and allows for signatures that don’t match.
Last Friday, though, the Pennsylvania Republican Party returned to the Supreme Court.
This time, rather than asking the court to put the state supreme court’s ruling on hold, they asked the justices to rule on the merits of the case – and to do so before Election Day. And now there are nine justices to consider, and eventually vote on, the Republicans’ request.
Pennsylvania is a key state. It has 20 electoral votes. The presidential election may turn on its result. That is why both candidates have campaigned there so hard in recent days. In 2016, Trump won the state over Hillary Clinton by 0.72 percent, the narrowest margin in a presidential election for the state in 176 years.
There will be no chance of a tie unless Barrett recuses herself. There is every reason to believe that she will not recuse. That means there is a good chance that the Supreme Court will, by a vote of 5-4, stay the count in Pennsylvania until thousands of signature-mismatched ballots are sorted out and disqualified.
we shall see, boo!
Justice Barrett is delivering anything to Prez. She will thwart the Democommie fraud,
I think the Bidens deserve some credit.
no
Yup.
American people are delivering the election to the President.
And I take umbrage with this author claiming stopping vote fraud would be delivering the election to the candidate hurt by said fraud.
Who is this writer?
It’s a measure of comfort to know ACB is now joining Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Alito and Thomas in forming a solid Conservative SCOTUS majority, with Roberts now somewhat neutralized.
However, I keep praying that PDJT will be reelected in such an historic landslide next Tuesday that no court(s) will need to intervene.
As this is 2020 my prediction is as follows. 270-268. Trump. One of the electors will defect putting it at 269 269. The house votes for Trump, Dems try to delay by bringing it to the Supreme Court where Roberts cannot make the difference so he figures it’ll make Trump look bad politically if he gets all the “Conservative” justices so supports a Conservative majority 6-3 securing 4 more years for President Trump. That just seems very 2020
Barrett won’t decide anything. She’ll vote honestly and intelligently on everything, but she’s one vote among nine.
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Well, at the very least, it won’t hurt him. Most who vote for him are not unhappy about it, and many have been hoping for a more originalist court for a very long time as Roe has been considered the biggest example of bad law by scotus since dred scott.
A moderate expectation is that it energizes the base, and propel people to make sure to vote for him, to get it done and not rely on others to vote him in again.
At the very best, it might bring some reluctant “republicans” to vote for him rather than stay home. Minorities that historically oppose abortion may split and some vote for him if the issue is important enough. Blacks that have awaken off the democrat plantation may see the reality of the democrats eugenics plans for decades, and it may give them another reason to consider voting for Trump.
Perhaps I’m a confirmed optimist; but I think you may be right about that ‘historic landslide’.
Roberts needs to be neutered, not neutralized.
I think it’ll be either a squeaker for Trump or a major biden landslide. Don’t think there’s many other options. Not now with the demographics.
Oh, please, NO
1968 redux?
Why would the house vote for Trump now? That’s democrat zone.
Each state gets one vote, not each congressman.
I think you’re absolutely wrong.
But I guess we’ll see :-)
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