The law allowed mail in voting. It did not allow ballots to be received after 8 p.m. on election night. Or any other changes that judges or election officials decided on. Only the state legislature has that power under the Constitution. You may not like it, but it's the law. But SCOTUS hasn't officially taken the case yet and if they don't it's a moot point. If they do the case has merit and the Constitution must be followed. Highly unlikely they'll rule otherwise. That will result in it getting kicked back to the state legislatures of the four states. If they can't come up with a remedy and neither candidate has 270 electoral votes it'll go to the House of Representatives to decide. Again, assuming SCOTUS decides to hear the case.
The Equal Protection Clause under the 14th Amendment.
But if it isn't heard them going forward we're likely to see the same sort of fraudulent behavior. For the country's same they need to enforce the integrity of our elections.
You know that’s not true, right?
Right. State legislature's can change election laws not change election results simply because they didn't like the outcome. Pa's Act 77 which created the mail in ballot process was a creation of GOP controlled legislature. A creation they were dead certain would hand Pa on a silver platter as a gift to their emperor god. So confident that it would they never bothered to challenge the constitutionality of the law within the allotted time frame. But after Trump lost they ran back to the Pa Supreme Court long after the timeline had expired and wanted that court to see it their way.
That law isn't in play here. What's being challenged is the right of anyone outside the state legislature to change election rules. Under the Constitution judges can't change things, state officials can't either. Only the elected legislators can.
If you get it your way what's to prevent other states from suing Texas on the basis of the same complaint? After all Republicans in Texas saw to it that voters in one of it's largest and most heavy populated counties were given only one mail in ballot drop off box in that entire county.
Actually that was ruled unfair and changed I believe. But the question is did the state legislature make that call? If they didn't and it was corrected all is well.
That no president has won without Ohio.
That's exactly right. The Pennsylvania Legislature a legislative body whereby both houses are overwhelmingly GOP controlled passed an amendment to Pa' election law (Act 77) that created the mail in ballot option. And after the mail in ballots were instrumental in Trump losing the election they ran back to Pa State Supreme court and SCOTUS trying to get them to undo what they had done. Both the PASC and SCOTUS threw it right back in their faces and in essence saying to them....."It's your law. Deal with it !.
Doesn't apply. The lawsuit is about whether judges or election officials in the four states made election rules changes which by the Constitution only allows state legislators to do. Not talking about the law you cited, talking about last minute rules changes as in allowing ballots to keep coming in past the deadline that a judge allowed, etc. What it will come down to is whether the Supreme Court wants to involved itself in something so politically charged. Some analysts think they won't.
Glad you have an opinion because I know you got an ass whole!
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