And now it falls to the U.S. Supreme Court to uphold election laws that were so cavalierly violated in many states during the past month’s elections.
Will the justices rise to the occasion? I doubt it, but I’m hoping to be surprised.
Texas has filed a motion directly with the Supreme Court against Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin citing election misconduct that the leadership of Texas deemed to be unconstitutional.
Louisiana has joined in the Texas pursuit of justice.
This happened on a day when it came to light that a prominent Democratic Congressman from California had a long-term relationship, perhaps sexual, with a Chinese spy. This would be the same guy who couldn’t pass on any opportunity to get in front of cameras to blame President Trump for being a Russian operative.
Can you say projection?
It came on a day when the incoming Los Angeles County District Attorney has announced that he will enforce only the laws he agrees with and ignore the remainder.
If you like such things, then you’re going to love a Harris-Biden administration.
Constitutional scholars realize that the Texas motion has ample merit. But will the Supreme Court actually hear the case, after it receives the responses it has ordered by Thursday from the states being cited for providing unequal treatment for voters?
Here’s where doing the right thing isn’t easy. If the justices hear the case and opt, as requested, to bar those states’ electoral voters as per the flawed election results and allow instead the constitutional process for replacing the electors to be followed, they will meet mammoth criticism from leftists, both in the media and in courts or governmental bodies.
I am expecting – fearing – the Supreme Court will borrow a page from gutless Attorney General William Barr and say the infractions don’t seem significant enough to have altered the outcome of the election.
Yes, that’s ridiculous when the margins in the swing states were so close and the lack of control on the huge numbers of mail-in ballots was so prevalent. But Barr thought he could get away with that sort of verbal whitewash, and the very next day had to water down his remarks in a release issued by his underlings at the Department of Justice.
It would not be stunning if the Supreme Court weaseled out similarly in what is a pivotal moment for this country.
If Trump is denied a second term based on widespread election misconduct, and if the Democrats can win both Senate runoff races in Georgia – where the people in charge have taken no steps to correct the problems of this most recent general election – this country as we know it is finished.
The points have been made previously, but bear repeating. Democrats, so brazen in their manipulation of the voting rules this time, would be free to put their rush toward socialism into high gear.
You will end up paying higher taxes – no matter what Democrats have told you – because all those handouts are going to cost incredible amounts of money that the federal, state and local governments simply do not have and taxing only the rich can’t provide.
But that’s just the start. Democrats will provide statehood for the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, counting on that to add four guaranteed leftist Senators and a likely permanent Senate majority.
They will pack the Supreme Court just to guarantee that somewhere down the line a group of the present number of nine justices won’t grow collective backbone and confront an issue of mammoth national significance by coming down against the political left.
Previous Supreme Courts have had no problems flying in the face of conservatives, and the population in general, by ending school prayer or allowing abortions.
This Supreme Court holds the future direction of the nation in its hands. The justices get to decide whether the Constitution must be followed, or is merely to be considered a vague suggestion that easily can be ignored if there’s enough money and corruption behind those looking to skirt its dictates.
Led by Chief Justice John Roberts, something of a master at wetting his finger and holding it in the air to see which way the political winds are blowing, this Supreme Court does not inspire confidence, no matter what the supposed conservative-liberal ratio of the justices is purported to be.
The ball now is squarely the court of the Supremes. Likely as not, they will dribble it off their feet and out of bounds.
But feel free to surprise me by doing the right thing, even if it is the hard thing.
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