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Well they are a busy bunch!!

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The Supreme Court on Monday turned down a request to salvage a Kansas law that required residents to provide proof of citizenship when registering to vote, despite pleas from Kansas lawyers and almost 20 red states.


Cowards!
If you don't have to prove citizenship when registering to vote, then what does voting mean?
Well, apparently not much if stealing an election in one State, which clearly affects and damages the rest of us, won't be taken up by this same Court because they say we don't have 'standing'. Cowards!



"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

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Lastmanstanding, that story about Kansas is unreal. The three new justices all seem to be disappointments. Too many globalists around him making recommendations. Not his fault because the Swamp has infiltrated everything.

This is an orchestrated reset like Trudeau said.
 
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How can an illegal non citizen obtain a ID card or drivers license?
 
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https://amgreatness.com/2020/1...courts-codify-chaos/

Reckless Courts Codify Chaos

Republican cowardice, a missing Justice Department, and feckless judges—not a few lawsuits—are the true dangers to our democracy.

Flagrant election cheating in several swing states, it seems, is of no interest to the self-appointed watchdogs of American democracy or even to those specifically tasked with investigating such unlawfulness.

The U.S. Department of Justice, despite its preachy corporate motto, is thus far blind to it. Journalists and professional pundits on both sides of the aisle downplay talk of what has happened as “baseless conspiracy theories” pushed by cult-like Trump loyalists. Most Senate Republicans are eager to move on while ignoring provable instances of voting fraud in their own states and urging the president to concede “for the good of the country.”

Even with a potentially power-shifting Senate election on January 5, no one seems particularly motivated to quickly remedy how absentee ballots have been mishandled, manipulated, and doctored in the 2020 presidential election.

And the entity usually considered the final and most impartial arbiter of injustice in the country—the court system—now, too, is in on the election fix.

Using COVID-19 panic as the pretext, election officials across the country turned a once-venerated quadrennial tradition into a rogue farce. Nearly 66 million mail-in votes were cast in the 2020 presidential election, double the number from 2016; the overwhelming majority were for Joe Biden.

Numerous lawsuits have detailed how state election laws, particularly those related to mail-in ballots, were broken. One would think that given Biden’s slim margin of victory in three states—only about 250,000 votes separate Biden from President Trump in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania—judges sworn to uphold the rule of law might exhibit at least a passing interest in exhausting all the evidence.

After all, if Americans can’t depend on the Justice Department or their state attorneys general, Democrats in those three states, or even local Republican leaders to come to the rescue, surely the black-robed referees perched on the bench will step up, right?

Wrong. Not only are the courts dismissing lawsuits, judges are setting dangerous precedents that will have more election-eroding consequences later.

Let’s start with the U.S. Supreme Court. In a terse, unsatisfying two-sentence statement on Friday, the court refused to consider the lawsuit filed December 7 by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, subsequently joined by his colleagues in 19 states as well as 126 Republican congressmen and the Trump campaign.

“The State of Texas’s motion for leave to file a bill of complaint is denied for lack of standing under Article III of the Constitution,” the court order read. “Texas has not demonstrated a judicially cognizable interest in the manner in which another State conducts its elections.”

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas disagreed, commenting the court “do[es] not have discretion to deny the filing of a bill of complaint in a case that falls within our original jurisdiction.”

Constitutional experts lauded the ruling as appropriate and described the Texas lawsuit as “dangerous” and “reckless.” Voters in Texas and other aggrieved states, the legal eagles warned, have no “standing” to challenge how other states administer their elections under the Elector’s Clause established in Article II of the Constitution.

But the notion that one state does not have an “interest” in how another state elects the president of the United States is absurd. Let’s take it a step further: What if Pennsylvania in the future allows noncitizens to vote legally in presidential elections? What if Michigan decides to give people of color two votes to compensate for past election “disenfranchisement?” What if Wisconsin allows people under the age of 18 to vote for president?

Those laws, which seem far-fetched but become closer to reality each election, clearly favor Democrats and would pose an insurmountable hurdle for Republican candidates in swing states. The rest of the country would be held hostage to the power-hungry whims of Democratic politicians and bureaucrats in decisive states. Americans are entitled to a better explanation from the court about how arbitrary election rules don’t in fact violate the 14th Amendment, as the Texas petitioners also charged.

(In another sign justices are reluctant to rile Democratic interest groups, the Supreme Court on Monday refused to review a lower-court decision that ruled Kansas’ voter registration requirement for proof of citizenship, such as a passport or birth certificate, violates federal law. Ironically the plaintiffs, including the American Civil Liberties Union, claimed the Kansas law violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, an argument the court just upheld.)

Administering fair elections with similar laws that honor the Constitution is part of the compact between states; once that deal is off, only the Supreme Court can calibrate the balance. The court in October also declined, without explanation, to reverse a lower court ruling that let Pennsylvania count mail-in ballots received three days after Election Day, including ballots in envelopes without postmarks.

Further, the Texas lawsuit didn’t challenge the right of states to write their own election laws. The petitioners argued, correctly, that government officials, both elected and unelected, broke the laws. As I summarized here, rules approved by state lawmakers, per the Constitution, were ignored or changed without permission. Elections workers in two states pre-canvased and “cured” ballots weeks before they were legally allowed. Michigan’s Secretary of State, without legal authority, sent 7.7 million mail-in ballot applications to registered voters.

Election workers in Wisconsin actually filled in missing addresses on certification envelopes . Without approval by Wisconsin’s legislature, appointed members of the Wisconsin Election Commission on October 19 instructed local election clerks to “resolve any missing witness address information prior to Election Day if possible, and this can be done through reliable information (personal knowledge, voter registration information, through a phone call with the voter or witness.)”

Although that guidance contradicted state law, Wisconsin’s highest court, channeling Bill Clinton, disputed the meaning of the word “address.”

“While a witness address must be provided on the certification for the corresponding ballot to be counted, the statute is silent as to what portion of an address the witness must provide.” Never mind that every person with a functioning brain understands an address to involve a street number, city, state, and ZIP code; since the Wisconsin legislature didn’t spell out what is generally accepted as common knowledge, election workers could enter the information themselves without anyone present to verify it was correct and without the voter’s knowledge.

Not to be outdone, the highly partisan Pennsylvania Supreme Court quibbled about the term “observers.” Once again using COVID-19 as the excuse, the court accepted “social distancing” barriers set up in the Philadelphia Convention Center that confined poll watchers to at least 15 feet away from canvassing tables and behind a “waist-high security fence.” Trump campaign officials could not verify that the more than 370,000 mail-in ballots processed at the huge facility met all state requirements. (According to one election data portal, only 232 mail-in ballots were rejected in Philadelphia County in the 2020 general election.)

Even though Republican observers couldn’t see the information on the envelopes, the fact that they could see the entire canvassing operation, albeit from a distance, satisfied the 5-2 majority Democratic Pennsylvania Supreme Court. “Given that observers are directed only to observe and not to audit ballots, we conclude, based on the witness’s testimony, that the Board of Elections has complied with the observation requirements,” the court ruled November 17.

So, while most Republican leaders cower to the mob, the Justice Department remains (in President Trump’s words) “missing in action,” and Georgia election officials prepare to administer the same faithless election next month as they did last month, federal judges toy with words and pass the buck.

And that, not a few lawsuits, is both reckless and dangerous to democracy.
 
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Lastmanstanding, that story about Kansas is unreal. The three new justices all seem to be disappointments. Too many globalists around him making recommendations. Not his fault because the Swamp has infiltrated everything.

Remember when we all thought Comey was the straight shooter? Yep he's going to get the right thing done. Then Sessions was going to put some teeth into the bark of the DOJ.
Then Wray was supposedly going to straighten out the FBI. Then Barr came along and yeah he's our man finally someone is going to get arrested! And then he appoints the special prosecutor Durham the no nonsense prosecutor to bring the coup plotters to justice. Comey and the rest are sweating bullets now!

Then it was Gorsuch, then Kavanaugh and finally the gifts of all gifts RBG tips over and we get ACB! I can't stand all this winning!! But yet here we are on the verge of our entire Republic collapsing. No this is not Trumps fault at all. I said in another post he had to rely on misleading information and obviously appointment recommendations that those who had his ear knowingly knew would not promote his agenda.

Now you have to wonder about all these judges McConnel was working so hard to approve. Whose agenda was he really serving? The real truth of what is and has been going on is probably much more frightening than what we do know.


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Well, thank God the "high court" has its priorities in order. Roll Eyes

High court agrees to hear NCAA athlete compensation case


Okay, that's nuts. To what address do we mail our "Hey, SCOTUS, what were you guys thinking?" letters? Confused




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Flagrant election cheating in several swing states, it seems, is of no interest to the self-appointed watchdogs of American democracy or even to those specifically tasked with investigating such unlawfulness.

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^^This is the crux of it.

There is WAY more than enough evidence to get the ball (official investigations) rolling.

But...all the evidence in the world doesn't mean anything if none of those in authority will not pursue truth and justice.

So here we are...

$.02 worth,
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To what address do we mail our "Hey, SCOTUS, what were you guys thinking?" letters? Confused

General Contact Information:

U.S. Mail:
Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543

Telephone: 202-479-3000



"Some things are apparent. Where government moves in, community retreats, civil society disintegrates and our ability to control our own destiny atrophies. The result is: families under siege; war in the streets; unapologetic expropriation of property; the precipitous decline of the rule of law; the rapid rise of corruption; the loss of civility and the triumph of deceit. The result is a debased, debauched culture which finds moral depravity entertaining and virtue contemptible."
-- Justice Janice Rogers Brown

"The United States government is the largest criminal enterprise on earth."
-rduckwor
 
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Thank you, chellim1.




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Well, thank God the "high court" has its priorities in order. Roll Eyes

High court agrees to hear NCAA athlete compensation case


Okay, that's nuts. To what address do we mail our "Hey, SCOTUS, what were you guys thinking?" letters? Confused


Save your postage. They don't give a crap.


Elk

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That SCOTUS is deliberately avoiding anything to do with any election is bad enough.
But the obvious, willful stupidity of the various state 'supremes' in rendering 'judgements' regarding election disputes busts right on through bordering on and right into blatantly criminal behavior. For these oathtakers to be the end of the line, where the buck stops, regarding law in their respective states and have them behaving in this manner is utterly unacceptable. For some of them in one state to adjudge QED evident criminal behavior under their own state statutes to be not be. For these people to have abdicated their responsibility to uphold laws means only two things: They are mentally impaired and should be removed to a qualified care facility to see if they can be helped ~or~ they are in fact acting in a voluntary criminal mode and are abusing their position and should be removed, tried and incarcerated. Given the trust inherent to their position and the blatancy of their crimes, I currently feel a life sentence is not too much.

Hearing of abuses of power has always touched a nerve with me and I've not been thinking very Christian at the moment but I will not apologize for it.
 
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That SCOTUS is deliberately avoiding anything to do with any election is bad enough.

This is not true. They were happy to consider and rule against a case brought by Kansas and twenty other red states requiring residents to show ID when registering to vote. See my link a page or two back. So they certainly are willing to hear some cases in regards to elections. But apparently only the ones that will damage voter integrity.


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Save your postage. They don't give a crap.


You don't have "standing."



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I used to think most of this treachery was George Soros, hell, he’s not even a top player in this.

Round these folks up for the circular firing squad, we’ll have to go international also.
 
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Is down to full speed off the cliff, or slow it down to ten years with these fucking Republicans, I vote for full speed while I am still capable of physical fighting.
If President Trump created a new American first party I will be the first one to join, from now on I will vote for democrats just to destroy those MF.
Signing off.
 
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Some backhanded hope from Styx -





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I used to think most of this treachery was George Soros, hell, he’s not even a top player in this.




Really?


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Not trying to be heroic. I'm utterly fed up with the GOP--particularly the GOP in my state.

I don't know what the solution is, but I can't see not voting for Republicans as being it. Every other alternative - staying home or voting third party - is effectively throwing the vote to the Democrat. Yes, it sucks, I know.
 
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If President Trump created a new American first party I will be the first one to join, from now on I will vote for democrats just to destroy those MF.
Signing off.


That's one hell of a risky gamble. Once you help get all these Democrats in power, they open the borders and expand "voting rights" to illegals, what makes you think you'll ever be able to get them out of there?
 
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...from now on I will vote for democrats just to destroy those MF.
Signing off.


What a brilliant strategy.

Hell, soon the democrats won't even need to cheat anymore. Roll Eyes


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