Judge halts further vote certification (but backs off a bit)

[struggle4progress]

A Pennsylvania appeals court judge ordered state officials on Wednesday to halt any further steps toward certifying election results, a day after Gov. Tom Wolf said he had certified Democrat Joe Biden as the winner of the presidential election in Pennsylvania.

Wolf’s administration quickly asked the state Supreme Court to block the ruling from taking effect, saying there was no “conceivable justification” for it.

Commonwealth Court Judge Patricia McCullough, a Republican, had issued the order and set a hearing for Friday, but canceled it amid the appeal.

https://www.altoonamirror.com/uncategorized/2020/11/pennsylvania-2/

[servermsh]

1. Why do people keep posting this over and over?

It's going nowhere.

PA has already certified its choice of electors and the certification has been deposited in the National Archives.

There is nothing to "halt". It's over.

[struggle4progress]

4. Yes, and she's now slowly backing off, before she gets a biting beat-down

[Iliyah]

2. The state is certified . ....

enough already. shithole administration and the republicans in congress both USA and states sucks.

Suckers and losers the whole lot of them.

This confirms that people who did not vote for republicans ballots should be avoid.

republicans can never tell me that they believe in the Constitution and democracy that includes the US SC.

[getagrip_already]

3. the full court of appeals issued a stay on that order - thats why the hearing was cancelled....

They killed it. It's dead.

If people don't keep nailing it's feet to the perch it would be pushing up daisies by now.

[onenote]

5. I think you are mistaken.

The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania has not taken any action with regard to this case as yet. I have no doubt that they will overturn the lower court's stay in short order.

The filing of the appeal was the reason the judge "continued" (i.e. postponed) the hearing scheduled for yesterday. That plus the fact she was busily writing an actual opinion to support her otherwise unexplained stay order (as required by the PA rules of appellate procedure when an order is appealed to the PA Supreme Court).

[Abnredleg]

9. The PA SC stayed the trial court's injunction on Wednesday

The State has asked the SC to dismiss the case but I don't think that has happened yet.

[onenote]

11. There is no cite to that action on the PA Supreme Court website.

Do you have a link?

[Demsrule86]

6. Nothing to see here...now move along.

Federal appeals court panel rejects Trump request to block certification of Pennsylvania’s election results
President Trump drives a golf cart at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., on Nov. 27, 2020.
President Trump drives a golf cart at Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va., on Nov. 27, 2020. (Oliver Contreras/For The Washington Post)
By
Jon Swaine,
Michelle Ye Hee Lee and
Robert Barnes
November 27, 2020 at 7:15 p.m. EST
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A federal appeals court on Friday rejected President Trump’s request for an emergency injunction to overturn the certification of Pennsylvania’s election results, delivering another defeat to the president’s attempts to reverse the outcome in a state that has already formalized President-elect Joe Biden’s victory there.

Trump’s campaign had filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit after a U.S. district court last weekend dismissed its federal lawsuit against Pennsylvania election authorities and rejected the campaign’s request to be allowed to revise the suit to include more allegations.

The lawsuit sought to halt certification of Pennsylvania’s results on the grounds that Republicans were illegally disadvantaged because some Democratic-leaning areas allowed voters to correct administrative errors on their mail ballot

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-appeals-court-rejects-trump-request-for-emergency-injunction-to-overturn-certification-of-pennsylvanias-election-results/2020/11/27/556540ba-30d7-11eb-bae0-50bb17126614_story.html

[Abnredleg]

10. Different Case

Case in OP is state, not federal, and is still alive. It's going to die a quick death, but the PA SC hasn't killed it yet.

[Cicada]

7. Without certification Gov Wolfe can appoint three fourths of state legislators

On Jan 1 without certification every seat in the PA house will be vacant, and the Governor can appoint democrats to every seat. In the State Senate half the seats will be vacant so the Governor can appoint democrats to all those seats. Then the legislature can redraw state district lines to guarantee Dems will always have a majority. So fine, block certification.

[Abnredleg]

8. Different case

Case in OP is state, not federal