[VIDEO] As Tim Pool discusses in the above video is the responses to the dismissal by the S.C.O.T.U.S. of the TX vs. PA lawsuit to overturn results in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, and Michigan. As I said last nite, it was very disheartening to hear the comments about taking up arms against the federal gov't or the republic is now dead. Just a very dim view of the future with a Biden/Harris administration holding the White House.
The most over the top response which is akin to taking up arms is a "civil war" or secession. Thankfully we're not essentially fight a war over slavery or over sectional issues. We seem very fractured politically and that's very unfortunate and likely heightened by the coronavirus pandemic. We probably were already there before that but it seems a lot of issues came out once our leaders decided on a course of mitigation efforts with stay at home orders, closing down "non-essential" businesses, etc.
I also want to share this with you as it pertains to this and I just retweeted this
In the substance of the Brief, first there are the procedural arguments:
PA argues that SCOTUS should not exercise its discretion to accept “original jurisdiction” because core interests of Texas are not at issue, unlike a border or waterway dispute. Rather, the argument goes, Texas is seeking to protect the asserted rights of its citizens, and if SCOTUS expands its jurisdiction in that way, it will open the floodgates to making the rare exercise of SCOTUS original jurisdiction into a trial court for disputes between citizens of states, rather than states themselves.
Next, PA argues that Texas has no standing, because it has suffered no injury in fact; the way in which other states interpret their own laws and own constitutions is not a protected Texas interest. The personal interests of Texas citizens cannot be sued upon by the State of Texas.
PA - Pennsylvania is one of those states cited in the original brief that Texas had filed for the S.C.O.T.U.S. Either they reject this lawsuit and there's hardly anything else to be done at this point and likely Biden will definitely be sworn in as President in January. Or we might have ourselves another Bush v. Gore from 2000. Time will tell.
A Pennsylvania state court issued an injunction Wednesday blocking any potential further certification of election results in the state, pending a hearing to be held Friday.
The order from Judge Patricia McCullough comes in the case brought by Pennsylvania voters including Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., in which they allege that a state law allowing for no-excuse absentee voting violated the Pennsylvania constitution, which outlines specific cases where absentee voting is allowed.
“[T]o the extent that there remains any further action to perfect the certification of the results of the 2020 General Election … for the office of President and Vice President of the United States of America, Respondents are preliminarily enjoined from doing so, pending an evidentiary hearing[,]’” McCullough wrote.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro quickly responded on Twitter, pointing out that this does not have much impact since the results of the presidential election have already been certified and electors chosen.
The last paragraph should be no surprise. THe argument is going to be it's too late election already certified. No point!
As you know Trump is still trying to find a path to victory in the 2020 race although it looks all but lost. As I've said already time is running out on this. However, I can't ignore allegations of voter fraud or irregularities. Certainly the issue with absentee/mail-in voting this year.
[VIDEO] Pennsylvania is one of those states that helped get Biden over the top and allow him to declare victory as "President-elect". As we know there some expected legal action in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Nevada, Arizona (among other networks FOX News called this state for Biden while CNN hasn't made the call, odd), and of course Georgia (and people are celebrating that they went blue).
Probably since Election Day last week we hear about various improprieties such as changing the process for mail-in vote (BTW, we're in the pandemic and thus this was being pushed as opposed to standing in line casting a ballot at your local polling precinct). We also have issues with voting machines perhaps you voted for Trump you put your ballot into a reading machine and magically your vote goes for Biden instead. We also have after the election we see that as far as the counts observers being denied the ability to observe election workers counting ballots.
We're clearly in a new era right now and it's a hell of a lot worse than what happened in Florida 20 years ago. I have to remind myself what happened in Pennsylvania:
A Pennsylvania appellate court handed President Donald Trump’s campaign a minor victory Thursday, barring counties from including in their final vote tallies a small pool of mail ballots from people who had failed to provide required ID by a Monday deadline.
In a two-page order, a Commonwealth Court judge struck down a decision by the Wolf administration to give voters more time, postelection, to fulfill the ID requirement.
State law requires all voters who applied to vote by mail to have their identification validated against state records by Nov. 9. However, just before the election, Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar pushed that date back by three days, citing a court decision earlier this year that allowed late-arriving mail ballots to be counted as long as they had been mailed by Nov. 3 and received within three days of that date.
In her order Thursday, Commonwealth Court President Judge Mary Hannah Leavitt ruled that Boockvar had no authority to do that.
With this said I will echo Tim Pool in the video you see above. Mr. Trump has a series of hail mary passes to complete in order to have a narrow chance of remaining in office in January. This is one of them and there's a chance if those votes are thrown out that it might not be enough to take Pennsylvania away from "President-elect" Biden. Then in those aforementioned states the President will have to be successful especially Michigan, Wisconsin and Arizona. If he can flip those states back into his column then the Biden/Harris ticket can eat their celebration.
And again even if the elections in these states are certified and the electoral votes are counted in Congress, I would have to bring up that a Biden presidency might be hobbled by legitimacy. Perhaps it was difficult to overcome with George W. Bush and certainly with Donald J. Trump, I think it would be especially difficult with Joseph R. Biden considering the circumstances.
At least with Bush or Trump the issues of legitimacy was over the simplicity of winning the electoral college with over 270 electoral votes, however, neither man won a plurality of the popular vote. Both men had the opposition make statements referencing their respective elections. An interesting quirk in our electoral system, you need not win a plurality of all ballots cast by American voters to secure a majority of electoral votes.
However, if there was some voter fraud or even "cheating" that's not quirky. I think those issues, those processes are problematic and should be treated as such. Any candidate elected in such a fashion should beware of that considering any future electoral considerations.
