The Supreme Court dismissed a case Monday over Pennsylvania’s high court extending the November election ballot deadline amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Republican congressional candidate Jim Bognet and four individual voters argued the state’s high court exceeded its authority when it extended the state’s mail-in ballot deadline by three days in the November presidential election amid the pandemic. The 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals held they did not have standing, prompting them to petition the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to reverse that decision.
The Supreme Court Monday vacated the Third Circuit’s judgment and ordered the lower court to dismiss the case as moot.
“Once again, the court’s involvement in the 2020 election is going out with a whimper, not a bang,” CNN Supreme Court analyst and University of Texas law professor Steve Vladeck said.
Vladeck added that the court’s decision Monday leaves the question over the ballot deadline unanswered.
“By vacating the decision below and ordering the lower court to dismiss the suit as being moot, the justices avoided either tacitly endorsing or rejecting the lower court’s analysis, leaving no federal precedent to govern the question of whether the Pennsylvania Supreme Court was allowed to extend the deadline for receipt for mail-in ballots last fall,” Vladeck said.
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I am rather that I supported the nominations of Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett. Somebody has evidently gotten to them. See, Joe, you really don’t need to pack the court after all—they’re giving their seal of approval to your theft of the election. No doubt, they will help you out with other things as well.
More and more, i wonder the same. WHY GET three supposed conservatives, WHEN SO FAR (other than a few religion cases) THEY HAVE SHOWN THEY ARE NOT caring what so bloody ever, about conservative values and the constitution…
The corrupt do nothing judicial system endorsing voter fraud.
Disappointing, gutless and, political favoritism. With these biased decisions it degrade the courts reputation of being neutral.
ITS ALREADY flushed down the crapper..
What that Pennsylvania court did was a clear violation of the Constitution, and it directly impacted the outcome of the election. Once again, the Supreme Joke has disenfranchised We The People and let an invalid election stand.
AND more and more, i wonder, WHY THE HELL even have a supreme court, WHEN THEY continually take a dump all over their oaths to uphold our constitution!?
Cowards!!
We the people need to write to the Supremes and demand they do their jobs.
How’s about we take pages out of the left’s playbook, and START MASS protests outside their OWN HOMES, to let them know our displeasure.
the law needs to be changed over a supreme court judge who does not follow the law that they can be
terminated from the bench.
this life long job on the court has to end.
AND it should be a vote by WE THE PEOPLE< not the hacks in congress, who makes that call.