The US Supreme Court Has Fallen
What just happened? Did US Supreme Court judges take the easy way out and flake under pressure?
Put another way is the Supreme Court now extinct by irrelevance.
This is the question Republicans are asking themselves in the wake of a court decision to dismiss a Texas lawsuit challenging election results in Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin.
The Justices ruled; Texas lacked legal standing — or capability- to sue under the constitution because it showed no interest to intervene in how other states handle their elections.
The GOP views the verdict as a cop-out with their attorneys’ now looking at filing separate lawsuits in district courts at the same time calling on justices to show courage and allow hearings.
Attorneys argue that with this route President Trump will have standing where the voters in the affected states don’t.
A sarcastic throwaway remark read; if not the voters, who does have standing in the Supreme Court anyone at all, than whom?
Indeed, if a state that play by the rules doesn’t have standing against states that arbitrary change the rules, just what the hang’s going on and who can stand?
The legal team is aware they have up until January 6 to file a suit because that’s the date Congress officially counts the Electoral College Votes.
The Supreme Court’s dismissal of the Texas suite has been called many things but the two that stand out is a moral failure and a decision on a political whim.
The consensus among Republicans is the court’s conservative justice’s committed collective judicial suicide by not wanting to get their hands dirty.
Retired Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz joined the fray saying the Supreme Court didn’t want to get involved in what was thought to be a political case.
Honestly, they feared for their jobs and the likelihood they’d be placed on a short list for positions under review once Joe Biden assumed the presidency.
Dershowitz added; This Supreme Court decision sends a message, the majority including the three justices appointed by President [Donald] Trump, all decided; we’re not going to hear the Texas case because we’re not going to get involved in this election.
The message the court’s delivered by its action isn’t a legal one but it’s practical.
In essence it’s we’re out of this game.
The Texas suite alleged; officials in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Michigan and Georgia used the novel coronavirus outbreak as justification to disregard election laws; even though the constitution only allows state legislatures the right to make changes.
Thus it was argued; by weakening laws intended to curb fraud, the officials in the four states denied citizens in Texas, and other states, equal protection of their vote.
Dershowitz said he believed the argument was valid, but the Supreme Court, in essence, said that citizens in other states were not harmed by the actions of officials in the four states.
