Very few of the
lawsuits that Trump’s legal team has filed since Election Day
have really worried the left, but when Texas Attorney General Ken
Paxton filed a lawsuit directly with the Supreme Court on Monday
night they immediately began freaking out.� The reason why they are
so alarmed is because they understand that this suit has the
potential to flip the election. The suit alleges that the states
of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin conducted their
elections in ways that violated the U.S. Constitution, and if the
Supreme Court agrees that would almost certainly mean that the
Supreme Court would force the state legislatures of those states
“to appoint a new set of presidential electors in a manner that
does not violate the Electors Clause and the Fourteenth
Amendmentâ€.
At this hour, we are being told that Louisiana, Arkansas,
Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina and South
Dakota have all joined the suit that Paxton has filed. The U.S.
Constitution gives the Supreme Court original jurisdiction over
controversies between states, and so this is why this case did not
need to be filed in a lower court first. But the Supreme Court is
not obligated to hear any particular case, and many on the left
initially thought that the Court would never actually agree to hear
it.
Well, it was
put on the docket just 12 hours after it was filed, and so it
will be heard.
And on Tuesday evening, the Supreme Court ordered the defending
states to file their answers
by Thursday at 3 PM eastern time.
So this is really happening.
The Supreme Court will determine the fate of the 2020 election
after all.
In his complaint, Paxton argued that voters in his state were
affected by the unconstitutional voting procedures in the other
states because in “the shared enterprise of the entire nation
electing the president and vice president, equal protection
violations in one state can and do adversely affect and diminish
the weight of votes cast in states that lawfully abide by the
election structure set forth in the Constitution.â€
And he is absolutely correct. When one or more states violates
the U.S. Constitution during a presidential election, that harms
everyone that voted, because voters in every state are involved in
electing the president.
According to the Electors Clause, state legislatures have the
authority to establish how presidential electors will be chosen in
their particular states, but Paxton alleges that government
officials in Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin made up
their own rules and did not follow the election laws
that had been passed by their own state legislatures…
“Using the COVID-19 pandemic as a justification, government
officials in the defendant states of Georgia, Michigan, and
Wisconsin, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, usurped their
legislatures’ authority and unconstitutionally revised their
state’s election statutes,†Paxton wrote in his filing.“To safeguard public legitimacy at this unprecedented moment
and restore public trust in the presidential election, this Court
should extend the December 14, 2020 deadline for Defendant
States’ certification of presidential electors to allow these
investigations to be completed,†he wrote. “Should one of the
two leading candidates receive an absolute majority of the
presidential electors’ votes to be cast on December 14, this
would finalize the selection of our President. The only date that
is mandated under the Constitution, however, is January 20,
2021.â€
Unlike the allegations of election fraud that are floating
around out there, these allegations are very easy to prove.
The following is a brief summary of some of the issues in each
of the four states that comes from the
Heritage Foundation…
-
Pennsylvania: The complaint accuses
Pennsylvania Secretary of State Kathy Boockvar of, among other
things, “without legislative approval, unilaterally abrogating†Pennsylvania statutes that
require “signature verification for absentee or mail-in
ballots.†These changes were “not ratified†by the
Pennsylvania legislature. -
Georgia: Similarly, the complaint describes
how Georgia’s Secretary of State, Brad Raffensperger, also “without
legislative approval, unilaterally abrogated Georgia’s statute
governing the signature verification process for absentee
ballots.†-
Michigan: The complaint states that Michigan
Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson “abrogated Michigan election statutes related to
absentee ballot applications and signature verification.†-
Wisconsin: Lastly, the Wisconsin’s elections
commission made similar changes in state laws without the permission of the
legislature that “weakened, or did away with, established
security procedures put in place by the Wisconsin legislature to
ensure absentee ballot integrity.â€
For these constitutional violations alone, the election results
in all four states should be thrown out.
In addition, in his complaint Paxton alleges that voters in
various parts of these states
were treated very differently…
Second, the complaint describes how voters in different parts of
these states were treated differently. For example, election
officials in Philadelphia and Allegheny Counties in Pennsylvania
set up a “cure process†for voters in those jurisdictions whose
absentee ballots did not comply with state legal requirements.
Those noncompliant ballots should have been rejected because state
law does not allow such a procedure.As a result of this behavior and similar behavior in other
states, there was “more favorable treatment allotted to votesâ€
in areas “administered by local government under Democrat
control.â€
Once again, this should be a slam dunk to prove based on the
evidence that has already been publicly presented.
And without a doubt, differential treatment violates the Equal
Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
On top of that, in Bush v. Gore the Supreme Court clearly
prohibited “the use of differential standards in the treatment
and tabulation of ballots within a state.â€.
Since differential standards in the treatment of ballots
occurred in all four states, that should mean that the election
results in all four states should be thrown out.
Lastly, Paxton alleges that there were “voting
irregularities†in each of the four states, and those allegations
are going to be more difficult to prove.
But Paxton doesn’t need to prove them, because the violations
of the Electors Clause and the violations of the Equal Protection
Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment should both be slam dunks.
Assuming that is the case, what is the appropriate remedy?
Paxton is asking that the state legislatures of Georgia,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin be forced “to appoint a new
set of presidential electors in a manner that does not violate the
Electors Clause and the Fourteenth Amendment, or to appoint no
presidential electors at all.â€
In each of those states, those legislatures could opt to hold
new elections or alternatively they could decide to choose new
slates of electors themselves.
And since all four of those state legislatures are controlled by
Republicans, that would seem to favor President Trump.
Needless to say, if the current election results in Georgia,
Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin are overturned, the left will
have a massive temper tantrum. Cities all over the nation would
burn and we would see endless civil unrest for
the foreseeable future.
So that may make some members of the Court hesitant to overturn
the current election results no matter what the Constitution
actually says.
But if there are at least five justices that are willing to
follow the Constitution no matter what the consequences are, we may
soon see the most shocking decision in the entire history of the
U.S. Supreme Court.
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