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GOP will ask Supreme Court to limit mail voting in Pennsylvania in first post-RBG test
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:14 pm
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:14 pm
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Republicans plan to ask the Supreme Court to review a major Pennsylvania state court ruling that extended the due date for mail ballots in the key battleground state, teeing up the first test for the Supreme Court since the death of its liberal leader Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The GOP legal strategy, which was revealed in a pair of court documents filed overnight and Tuesday morning, has not been previously reported.
The development comes after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court dealt Republicans a major blow last week in a bitterly partisan election lawsuit that could help determine whether President Trump or Democratic nominee Joe Biden takes the Keystone State, which Trump won in 2016 by just over 44,000 votes.
The expected petition to the Supreme Court comes just days after Ginsburg’s death from cancer last Friday injected further uncertainty into a chaotic 2020 presidential contest that is on track to be the most intensely litigated election cycle in U.S. history.
“This could be a big first test for the post-RBG Supreme Court and where it will stand on election issues,” said Rick Hasen, an election law expert and law professor at the University of California Irvine. “There’s little reason to believe that the conservative-liberal divide will disappear with Justice Ginsburg’s death.”
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Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:15 pm to jatilen
I can hear the sky screams from now
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:18 pm to jatilen
The state legislature control the rules for voting. PA's state legislature is Republican.
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:21 pm to Music_City_Tiger
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The state legislature control the rules for voting. PA's state legislature is Republican.
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The decision by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court
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Top leaders from Pennsylvania’s GOP-held legislature also vowed to petition the Supreme Court.
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:22 pm to jatilen
My prediction will be an 4-4 decision with Roberts siding with the dems. Tie goes to the runner (the prior court decision).
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:22 pm to jatilen
you can book it roberts will claim the SCOTUS callendar is full and they cant make time to address this ruling until nov 4th at the earliest, that or they wont accept taking it up at all
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:31 pm to jatilen
So I guess this is being taken up to SOCOTUS with the argument that PA voters constitutional civil rights are being violated through voter disenfranchisement from the PA Supreme Court Ruling?
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:32 pm to kingbob
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Tie goes to the runner (the prior court decision).
So the 3rd Circuit court?
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:34 pm to GumboPot
I could be wrong, but I think this case came up through the state court system, so it would remand back to the Pennsylvania State Supreme Court
Posted on 9/22/20 at 1:35 pm to jatilen
Jim Bopp Jr is the man when it comes to this stuff. Trump couldn't have found a better attorney to be his election campaign attorney.
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