So the mass-muRderer-in-chief wants to ask the USSC to throw away all the votes received after ED?

[Lock him up.]

In PA, the deadline for the military ballots is Thursday, Nov. 12, so that LOSER wants to throw away the votes of those he considers to be SUCKERS and LOSERS and he expects the corRupt handmaid he picked will probably agree with him??

LOCK.HIM.UP

[TwilightZone]

1. It's not going anywhere.

He knows that. He's just flailing.

[Hoyt]

2. Let him rant and look stupid. The Supreme Court has made it clear they aren't going to listen to him

[Lock him up.]

3. The tie was 4-4. Handmaid didn't want to opine. I'm talking about the most recent

so-called 'emergency' request I heard reported on MSNBC earlier today.

[Ms. Toad]

4. Not quite.

The statute in PA has an election day cut-off for ballots (other than military).

The Republican legislature declined to extend the deadline.

Faced with delayed mail the State Supreme court said ballots would be counted if they were received by today.

The constitution grants the power over elections to the legislature.

So the argument to the Supreme Court is that the court is not permitted to extend the deadline set by the legislature, because the constitution grants that power to the legislature - not the state courts.

It doesn't impact military ballots, since those have a different statutory due date (which was not extended by the court).

[Lock him up.]

6. Thanks for clarifying that. n/t

[dawg day]

7. Biden wins anyway, right?

on the ballots that arrived?

[Thekaspervote]

11. Yes..he does

[Ms. Toad]

15. Hard to tell - but likely.

Reports are that there aren't that many ballots that have arrived between election and today. The SOS has indicated the number is too small to change the outcome.

[DoBotherMe]

8. That's kind of scary

But those ballots that arrived after the 3rd were sequestered and haven't been included in the total mail-in ballots received, right?

[Phoenix61]

14. Last I heard that is correct. nt

[DoBotherMe]

16. Thanks, somebody in the Biden campaign was thinking

straight, because I sure wasn't!

[Ms. Toad]

17. Correct - they will start counting them at 5 PM -

It is the count starting at 5 PM that Trump is suing to stop (until the S. Ct can hear the entire case).

The first question is whether the addition of Barrett would mean a 5th vote to hear the case - and, if so whether they would issue an injunction and how they would decide the ultimate issue.

[DoBotherMe]

20. Thank you!

[DLCWIdem]

19. I Thought the state supreme court ruled

That while the rules didn't say to extend the deadline it doesn't forbid it either and that is why the state court allowed the extension. Then the SC denied the immediate repeal.

[Ms. Toad]

23. The key being: state supreme court.

The question being appealed is a federal constitutional question - which allows the SC to take a look if it chooses.

The SC declined to take the time, but left open the possibility of hearing it later. It's now later - and there is one more justice on the case so it may go differently.

[DLCWIdem]

25. Right.

But the state sc was still upheld by the SC. And I was talking about the state sc court decision. IMO that distinction matters becausr it has to do with changing election law.

[Ms. Toad]

26. The state SC was NOT upheld by the USSC.

They declined to hear the case at that time. Two distinctions.

There was no review on the merits.
The decision as to whether or not to review the state decision at some future time was left open.

The basis of the appeal to the USSC is that the constitution gives the decision about how to choose electors to the state legislators- NOT - to the state courts. Here, the decision to count late-arriving ballots was made by the state courts, not the legislators.

The US Supreme Court is the final arbiter of whether the state court's decision to do an end run around the legislators violated the federal consitution.

[bluecollar2]

5. What does erectile dysfunction have to do with it?

[Lock him up.]

9. Election Day

[bluecollar2]

10. Erection day?

Sorry...couldn't resist...

[Thomas Hurt]

21. Oh, that was limp dude....

[bluecollar2]

22. Nicely done...n/t

[Thekaspervote]

12. I read yesterday that these frivolous law suits being filed are helping keep the man child calm

[CentralMass]

13. Considering Dejoy sabotaged the postal system ...

[Ms. Toad]

18. Unfortunately, that doesn't change the legal issue. n/t

[Happy Hoosier]

24. Fortunately...

The PA SoS has announced that excluding those ballots would not significantly affect the margins.