[ May 3, 2024 ]
Yes, even Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania House Leaders File Brief to Support Texas in Supreme Court Lawsuit Against Pennsylvania
By Jack Phillips, The Epoch Times, December 10, 2020:
Pennsylvania’s House speaker and majority leader on Thursday filed an amici curiae brief with the Supreme Court against the state of Pennsylvania and in favor of Texas’s lawsuit against the commonwealth and three other states.
Story continues below advertisementA brief (pdf) filed by Pennsylvania House Speaker Bryan Cutler and Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff, both Republicans, requests that the Supreme Court “carefully consider the procedural issues and questions raised by the Plaintiff concerning the administration of the 2020 General Election in Pennsylvania.”
“The unimpeachability of our elections requires clear procedures of administration so that everyone gets a fair shake. Unfortunately, outside actors have so markedly twisted and gerrymandered the Commonwealth’s Election Code to the point that amici find it unrecognizable from the laws that they enacted,” they wrote, adding that the state of Texas “raised important questions about how this procedural malfeasance affected the 2020 General Election.”
In the lawsuit, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton alleged that Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin introduced changes to election laws, deeming them unconstitutional. The suit also contends that by doing so, those states treated voters unequally and created significant voting irregularities by rescinding certain ballot-integrity measures.
Filed on Monday night, the lawsuit is requesting the Supreme Court to declare the four states carried out their respective elections in violation of the U.S. Constitution.
“The states violated statutes enacted by their duly elected legislatures, thereby violating the Constitution. By ignoring both state and federal law, these states have not only tainted the integrity of their own citizens’ vote, but of Texas and every other state that held lawful elections,” Paxton said in a statement announcing the legal petition.
Cutler and Benninghoff, in support of Paxton’s lawsuit, further stipulated that “under the pretextual guise of COVID-19, special interests began attempting to use Pennsylvania courts” to carry out “election procedures of their own choosing,” citing mail-in ballot extensions implemented by Kathy Boockvar, the Pennsylvania secretary of state.
Also on Thursday, Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro filed a brief with the court, arguing that Paxton’s assertions are frivolous and an attempt to “disenfranchise voters” in the commonwealth.
“Its request for this Court to exercise its original jurisdiction and then anoint Texas’s preferred candidate for President is legally indefensible and is an [affront] to principles of constitutional democracy,” Shapiro’s brief read. He further argued that Texas hasn’t suffered harm “simply because it dislikes the result of the election, and nothing in the text, history, or structure of the Constitution supports Texas’s view that it can dictate the manner in which four other states run their elections.”
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93 Comments
3 years ago
The BIG QUESTION is will the United States Supreme Court have the
COURAGE to hear it and the COURAGE to rule properly on it?
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The ruling is going to be ‘Yes, they broke the law but the election was fair and won’t be overturned.’
3 years ago
Reply to
Pete Tooley
It makes perfect sense. Ever hear of civil cases where the verdict was “guilty, pay $1 in damages”? This is the same thing. They ignore the mountains of evidence and rule that there was fraud but it didn’t change the result of the election.
3 years ago
Reply to
Archmagos Dominus Krell
This ruling is completely separate from the issue of fraud and how much of it occurred. This issue is whether the state elections laws were changed constitutionally and by state officials that were in authority to do so.
3 years ago
Reply to
Taffy
The form of the argument doesn’t change at all. “Yes it was unconstitutional but it didn’t change the result of the election. Suit denied”. Trump still loses and no penalty or censure for said unconstitutional acts will be ordered.
3 years ago
Reply to
Archmagos Dominus Krell
No, that isn’t the form of the argument to begin with. They won’t consider if it changed the outcome or not, they will say it invalidates certification and will throw it back to the state.
3 years ago
Reply to
Archmagos Dominus Krell
Let it go. Your logic is faulty. Seriously, it is. I have no idea how the case will be decided but rest assured, your train of thought won’t be part of the majority opinion.
3 years ago
Reply to
Archmagos Dominus Krell
Then we need the President to declare martial law and he can declare an insurrection and order a new election in the six states in question. Anyone who is honest knows this whole thing was a coup on our country and we cannot just accept and go on like nothing happened.
3 years ago
Reply to
Archmagos Dominus Krell
The rest of the story then would be potus pulling all the levers still before him forcing a Congressional election with 1 vote per State…!
3 years ago
Reply to
Anonymous
No if the ruling determines they broke the law then the election was NOT fair and it will be overturned… You need to study your laws. This is not a matter of just some fraudulent votes this is a matter of a criminal offense in the fact they BROKE THE LAW.
3 years ago
Reply to
Anonymous
Fair? I’m thinking a Justice, well, a good one, isn’t concerned with fairness as a qualitative but rather if the laws that were passed by the Leguslative branch were followed, given that the laws pass Constitutional muster. That approach is the only way to approach something being fair.
3 years ago
Reply to
Anonymous
That would not surprise me. Every Supreme Court in those states made the same ruling.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
And the answer to this big question is absolutely and unequivocally no both with regard to honestly hearing the case and dispensing a just ruling. These things just don’t happen in communist countries.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The Judges of the United States Supreme Court’s job is to judge and rule according to the Constitution of the United States of America….. It is not about Courage it is about them doing their JOB. If not then they need to be taken off the bench.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I’ll say this much, with all these states, even Penn., at this point backing this lawsuit, and with all of the evidence that there is to back it, if SCOTUS ‘shytes the bed’ on this one, as we say in Maine, you can damn well expect a full blown rebellion. They don’t dare blow this one off, and they damn well know it.
3 years ago
Reply to
arthur facteau
Yep = for the desenters in such an act of treason –
“WE know where they live when stuff hits the fan”.
This is why the Tory Loyalist’s with Britains defeat – shipped off to Britain or Canada in both OUR War’s for “freedoms under Liberty”…!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
True and then weighed in the balance of the rest of their lives knowing they’re were useless when the history of Ametrca hung in the balance…!
3 years ago
It is clear that The 4 States in question violated their own State Constitutions by changing Election Law WITHOUT those changes being voted on by their State Legislatures. Unquestionably those Election Law changes were illegal and Unconstitutional by both State and US Constitution. Now we see if John Roberts respects the Constitution. Or not. Of course, Roberts already scheit upon the Constitution when he personally re-wrote Obamacare from the Bench and allowed that Abomination to become Law. Roberts is a Constitutional disaster.
3 years ago
Reply to
Indiana Mike
The whole world is watching him with this one we will pray he does what he is paid to do…. uphold and rule according to the Constitutional Laws.
3 years ago
Reply to
V.V.
It took DONALD JOHN TRUMP to bring this all out in the open.
How big a deal is this fact alone…????????
3 years ago
Reply to
Indiana Mike
I have been wanting Chief Injustice Roberts to be impeached for a very long time. In my humble opinion his ruling on ObamaCare should be enough to institute those proceedings. It indicates corruption in his life and that should be investigated.
3 years ago
Reply to
movingwaters
Then, the other three liberals would have to go too but then I’d be fine with that.
3 years ago
Reply to
orlandocajun
All 4 have proven to be unConstitutional and worse have openly “legislated from the bench” = clearly impeachable acts….!
3 years ago
Reply to
Indiana Mike
We fought a revolution to reject tyranny.
We fought a civil war to ensure freedom and maintain the republic.
We fought two world wars to turn back evil dictators.
We have fought numerous wars around the globe in defense of liberty.
Let’s hope the Supreme Court appreciates the sacrifices we have made and doesn’t get weak kneed and goes along to get along just to avoid conflict. The nation is worth fighting for.
3 years ago
Also disenfranchisement of the Voters in those States themselves.
3 years ago
A good law can be plainly written and understood to those pertaining to the rule. Or those who are covered under the law. In this case, the constitution gives plain language and instructions covering American elections.
3 years ago
Reply to
rmiers1
Liberals, though, incorrectly believe that their opinions and lawlessness is justified because they think their views are ‘righteous’. They think they are outside the law; they are reinforced in this view by the fact that they get away with their lawlessness. ‘Two-tiered justice system’.
It’ll take a long time to fix this situation.
3 years ago
Reply to
Bill
Not so much “outside” the law. Rather, they consider themselves ABOVE the law.
3 years ago
Our country is being attacked from enemies domestic.
Our Constitution proscribes what we should do about enemies both foreign and domestic…
Arm yourselves.
3 years ago
Reply to
FrenchLeTaunter
The military and the politicians take an oath to defend the country against all enemies both foreign and domestic, those who have committed this fraud are our enemies and need to be dealt with accordingly and made an example of if anyone ever tries this again to overthrow the legal voters of our country. This is our country not theirs and they work for us and we going to fire all of them and prosecute those who committed crimes or were accessories to the crimes.
3 years ago
Not a new thought here, but still relevant: The D’s insisted that cheating took place in 2016, and insist a fair election was had in 2020. They are the ones that changed how their states’ voted, to their benefit.
They should not be surprised when they must concede this point. They certainly know they cheated; tried to usurp our democratic right to decide whom our elected officials are.
3 years ago
The constitution is fundamental to everything it creates/authorizes. A law created under the authority of a constitution cannot have more authority than the constitution which authorized it. To reinforce this point our Constitution makes it crystal clear, in Article 6, that it is the “Supreme Law of the Land.”
3 years ago
Either we are a land of laws, or we are a land of men.
If you wish a land of men, look to Soviet Russia, Maoist China, Pol Pot’s Cambodia, Castro’s Cuba, or for a real treat, Kim’s North Korea.
The democrats have proven they HATE a land of laws.
Arm yourselves.
3 years ago
The Constitution dictates how they run their elections. The Judges of the Supreme Court’s job is to uphold and rule according to the Constitution of the United States of America. Lets pray for their sakes this happens, if not they need to be taken off the bench.
3 years ago
homer said it best…Doh!
3 years ago
On Monday and Tuesday there was and audit of the Michigan (Dominion) voting machines by an independent auditor. The findings were supposed to be made public Tuesday night. Instead, the Michigan AG filed with a judge to stop the auditor from releasing the information from the audit and the judge ruled in her favor. The information has yet to be released. This was on Lou Dobbs this evening.
3 years ago
Reply to
PlatinumGhost
Notice how Senator Grassley proclaims his indignation to an EMPTY ROOM! Why didn’t HE speak up? HE knew about it. HE is not above “leaks.”
This is the DEM way of pushing Joe Biden aside to be replaced by Kamala.
3 years ago
Reply to
PlatinumGhost
Look at how her breathing picks up. She is restraining her anger ….she is livid beyond words. Interestingly, there is a rumor that she is registered as a military lawyer so she could prosecute at a military tribunal. https://unapologeticrepublican.com/now-we-know-sidney-powell-is-registered-as-a-military-lawyer-who-can-prosecute-treason/
I have no doubt she is telling the truth. Her problem is what COURT will hear her and allow her a trial? They seal documents, issue gag orders – anything to keep the public believing there is evidence. They are so close to achieving a victory that they have been working on for decades! COVID was the convenient vehicle to bring this about.
The DEM and RINO JUDGES will continue to dismiss her and the U.S.S.C. doesn’t hear and decide criminal crimes. That is my frustration. You can’t trust the FBI, CIA or DHS to name a few, to properly investigate this and they have endless resources. The opposition to them does not.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Sidney Powell is a hero. It’s also great to see Lou Dobbs’ passion on display. Momentum, baby!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
The DeepState has something on all that wilt under fire of the truth that must be faced = TREASON..!
3 years ago
Biden is an illegitimate president
3 years ago
Reply to
Mark Russo
Well since he isn’t even President elect what is your point? Don’t concede one millimeter with accurate language. Right now he is one of two candidates for office, period.
3 years ago
Reply to
Mark Russo
I agree but perhaps there should be an adjective put in front of his name: want-a-be president Biden.
3 years ago
Reply to
CorkysDad
I suggest: “Wanna Bee Prezi” or better still: “Bidet, Commander in Thief” as per MSM
3 years ago
Reply to
Mark Russo
Biden has no love for our country or anyone in it.
It’s all about money and power to him.
With his cognitive decline, he may not realize that he will be sidelined soon.
Can you imagine Kamala as President and maybe Hillary as Vice President?
It’s a possibility….
3 years ago
William Penn would be proud, but there is still a long, difficult road ahead.
3 years ago
SCOTUS must follow the constitution. They must not deviate from it, as they are want to do on occasion.
3 years ago
Reply to
warrenzoell
I’m trying to be optimistic but the more I think about THEM, the less I am.
The recent U.S.S.C. rulings on LBGTQ+ are not encouraging. With the last one, they let the lower court ruling stand, by refusing to hear it. Now students and adults are forced to be humiliated in locker rooms, changing rooms, bathrooms and showers.
It was easier for them to kick the can down the road than be courageous. Both issues are emotionally charged. Now 39 states are drowning them with pro and con positions on the Texas lawsuits. I guess we’ll just have to wait and see what they do, rather than speculate.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
That was sad – tho the election outcome may go beyond SCOTUS to finally one vote per State…!
3 years ago
The Supreme Court has the opportunity to clean up our elections with this one ruling. If we let the demwits get away with this massive fraud, it will stay that way until America ceases to exist – a banana republic without fair elections.
3 years ago
Pennsylvania should move, immediately, to remove the Governor, the AG, and the Sec of State, not only did they commit crimes against the People of Pennsylvania, and of America, they have brought scorn upon what was once a Great State (the state of my birth): Pennsylvania. Ride them out of Harrisburg on a splintered rail after being tarred and feathered. Never allow them to work again in any “public” position.
3 years ago
Reply to
CorkysDad
I agree 100%, as Pa. is my birth state as well. But, alas, Pennsylvania does not have a recall proclamation within it’s founding documents. Our only move is impeachment, but with our SC being heavily leftist, that would fail too.
3 years ago
Can’t blame them, the PASC violated the rights and usurped the elected authority of the legislature.
3 years ago
So much at stake ….
There is a reason why they keep legalizing ILLEGAL drugs….
3 years ago
This is Fantastic!!!, because Seventeen OTHER States also told the Supreme Court on Wednesday that they support the action of Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.
The states that support the process are:
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah and West Virginia.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/states-tell-supreme-court-they-support-texas-bid-to-reverse-biden-win.html
3 years ago
Keep the pressure up march on Washington if needed. These people cannot be allowed to get away with the steal.
3 years ago
One more incremental step with a solid legal base supporting it. This approach makes the decision by SCOTUS very easy.
NOW, flood DC with e-mails and phone calls to keep the pressure on.
3 years ago
About time. I was silently cursing them last night.
3 years ago
Brave people and patriots !
3 years ago
BREAKING NEWS: President Trump has won reelection!
3 years ago
SCOTUS is now leaning conservative, the PA case is evidenced clear, the SCOTUS must rule for Texas et al or it proves SCOTUS is infected with bribery.
3 years ago
How will the election fraud deniers deny this one? One of the states being taken to court agrees that the SHOULD be taken to court. This should be a slam dunk. But I have little faith in our “justice” system these days.
3 years ago
Reply to
One Eye Jack
They just need to keep Gorsuch on the reservation and we should be just fine. Alito, Thomas, Kavanaugh, and Barrett should the the lawful thing. On a side note, I sure Kavanaugh is looking for some pay back about now.
3 years ago
Trump is going to stay 45!
3 years ago
By any chance did the weenies in PA come out strongly in favor of this Texas lawsuit because they were afraid that their own constituents would remove them from office their next opportunity because they lacked courage to protect the integrity of the people’s vote? The reason I ask this is because I have been told hundreds of times by conservatives that there is “nothing you can do” to prod your representatives into action. I say they are wrong and the problem with America is the complacency of its citizens.
3 years ago
It took DONALD JOHN TRUMP to bring this all out in the open.
How big a deal is this fact alone…????????
3 years ago
I’d feel much better if Justice Scalia were still alive.
3 years ago
Reply to
Duties
Aye. Just remember every evil brought against us will not prosper. I am sticking with Jesus.
3 years ago
Please pray for SCOTUS due to be in meeting now. God, keep your hand on us and soften our hearts to your will.
3 years ago
Regardless how the others vote, assuming they take the case, Roberts is sure to vote with the liberals.
3 years ago
This case should be open and shut, All 4 states DID in fact illegally have non legislative actor alter election law. That is NOT in dispute and on the merits alone this case MUST as a matter of constitutional law go to Texas. How it will be remedied is the only question, but if the constitution is to be followed that is also pretty clear. The 4 state legislatures can choose the electors, the question is how they will vote
3 years ago
I’m thinking the seating of Amy Coney Barrett will soon be paying dividends.
3 years ago
There is ZERO reason to trust the SC on this one either. In 2016 the dims underestimated President DJT. They didn’t manufacture enough phony ballots to overcome his landslide victory. They were prepared this time. And the gop let them do it! The grand old panzies are not your friend. Real conservatives need to eradicate the rinos or form a new party!
3 years ago
Pretty weak reply from Penn. AG Josh.
3 years ago
And the legal voters of the states in question as well.
