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A legal expert explains why the Texas lawsuit is preposterous and it is unlikely the Supreme Court will take on the case:

On Tuesday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a lawsuit in the U.S. Supreme Court against four battleground states, alleging they made unconstitutional changes to their voting laws before the 2020 election.

Paxton claims that had Pennsylvania, Georgia, Michigan and Wisconsin kept their voting laws the same – not expanding voting by mail, for example, because of the pandemic – President Donald Trump would have won reelection.

Steve Vladeck, the Charles Alan Wright Chair in Federal Courts at the University of Texas at Austin School of Law, told Texas Standard that Paxton’s suit is “preposterous” and unlikely to be heard by the Supreme Court – the only court that has jurisdiction in this case because it’s one state suing another.

“I think what this really is is an effort to try to force the Supreme Court’s hand. You know, we’ve heard about these cases going on in each of the states … and I think this is the attorney general trying to jump the queue and basically say, hey, Supreme Court, it’s now or never; you’ve got to resolve this election,” Vladeck said.

There’s a couple reasons the court likely won’t take on Paxton’s case. One is that it’s never been done before – the Supreme Court has never taken on a case between states that seeks to alter the outcome of an election. Also, similar lawsuits are already working their way through state courts, and that’s where the Supreme Court usually prefers such cases be resolved, Vladeck says. Even though the high court has so-called original jurisdiction in this case, it usually stays out of cases that haven’t worked their way through lower courts first.

“The court doesn’t like its original jurisdiction because it asks the court to function as a trial court; it’s used to functioning as an appellate court,” Vladeck said. “And so the court’s M.O., even in high-profile cases, even in politically sensitive cases, is if the issues are being addressed through cases in other courts involving other parties, the court will stay out of the original cases like this.”

And this is prima facie evidence why you should never take seriously anything a so-called legal expert says that is reported by the media, given that only a few hours later, the Supreme Court accepted the case and ordered the defendants to reply.

The United States Supreme Court on Tuesday evening, December 8 ordered Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin and Georgia to reply to a lawsuit filed this week by Attorney General of Texas Ken Paxton.

Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Carolina, South Dakota and Missouri have all joined Texas as co-plaintiffs. But don’t worry, fraudsters! Another legal expert claims that there is no possible way that the States have standing.

Paul Smith, a professor and election law expert at Georgetown University’s law school, told Reuters that there is “no possible way the state of Texas has standing to complain about how other states counted the votes and how they are about to cast their electoral votes.”

Remember, these people don’t speak the truth. They’re just sorcerers casting spells, hoping to invoke their desired reality by speaking it into being.

 Or, at least it appears to be if anyone gets around to citing Foster before the Supreme Court.

“When the federal statutes speak of ‘the election’… they plainly refer to the combined actions of voters and officials meant to make a final selection of an officeholder… By establishing a particular day as ‘the day’ on which these actions must take place, the statutes simply regulate the time of the election, a matter on which the Constitution explicitly gives Congress the final say.”  Foster v. Love, 522 U.S. 67, 71-72 (1997)

We will take a closer at this binding precedent below, but in preview, please understand that it emanates from a 9-0 decision of the United States Supreme Court, wherein the entire Court joined, not just the outcome, but also the opinion on this very point.

The voters vote.  The officials count.  These combined actions form “the election,” and the election must be decided on the day.  States that failed to make a final selection of officeholder by midnight after Election Day have violated the statute, subjecting the nation at large to the very evils Congressionally mandated deadlines were drafted to prevent….

3 U.S.C. § 2 kicks the decision back to the State Legislatures after a failed election renders the previous results void.  Failed elections nullify all votes, not just some votes, not just late votes, not just illegal votes.  The election itself is void in late States. 

Which States are late?  The answer will be a question of first impression for the Supreme Court.  But the only fair answer is obvious.  If, at midnight, one candidate had enough of a lead, so that there was no mathematical possibility whatsoever of their being caught – after a review of the votes already counted, and the votes remaining – then the final selection has been made on time.  But if the outcome was uncertain at Midnight, the State violated the deadline, and its election is void….

As to Representative and Senate races, the statutes mandate subsequent elections, but as to presidential electors, 3 U.S.C. § 2 provides a deadline extension to the State Legislatures alone to determine – “in such manner as the legislature of such State may direct” – which electors shall be appointed.  This statute simply reiterates the plenary authority in the United States Constitution.

We should find out soon what the State Legislatures will do, because the United States Supreme Court is about to nullify the results of this election in every State that failed to report a clear winner before November 4th.

It seems a little hard to credit, to be sure, but the logic and the Supreme Court citation appear to be sound. And remember, ignorance of the law is no excuse, not even for District Court judges and State legislatures.

President Trump answers a journalist:

Journalist: A week from now the electors will meet to cast their vote. There’s not a lot of time between now and then to make your case. Are you looking to change the outcome of the election or make the case to the American people that it wasn’t fair?

President Trump: If you look at the polls, it was a rigged election. You look at the different states, the election was totally rigged. It’s a disgrace to our country, it’s like a Third World country, and these ballots pouring in from everywhere and using machinery nobody knows, ownership nobody knows anything about, they have glitches, as they call them, glitches that are not glitches, they’re caught sending out thousands of votes, all against me, by the way. This was like from a Third World nation and now we find out what we can do about it. But you’ll see a lot of big things happening over the next couple of days.

Stay cool, stand back, and stand by. Meanwhile, the salient point sails high over CNN’s collective head.

There is a sense developing within Donald Trump’s legal team and what remains of his campaign staff that their efforts to overturn or delay the results of the election are coming to an end, multiple sources tell CNN, despite what the President has said publicly.

Translation: the courts had their chance. Sure, it’s always possible that we have it wrong. On the other hand, it’s going to be very easy to explain how no one saw it coming.

It’s almost certainly a futile attempt to bolt the stable door after the horses get out, but the Michigan Secretary of State’s order to delete the election data amounts to a confession of fraud:

 Sure, it could be a coincidence. But, as we know, there are no coincidences.

A campaign team member for Sen. Kelly Loeffler was killed in a crash on Interstate 16 in Pooler on Friday.

The Pooler Police Department confirmed that Harrison Deal, who was from Bulloch County, was killed in the crash on eastbound I-16 near Pooler Parkway on Friday at about 10 a.m. Pooler Police responded to the scene and found three vehicles on fire.

Deal was killed in the crash. Three other people were treated at the scene for minor injuries.

Harrison Deal was dating Georgia Governor Kemp’s daughter Lucy and was a student at the University of Georgia. He was a field rep for Sen. Loeffler, and had interned for Sen. David Perdue in 2019.

It appears someone really, really does not want to see the Georgia vote audited. But the threats don’t appear to be working everywhere.

Letter from over 76 members of the PA legislature asking Congress to reject PA’s electors.  The focus is on multiple violations of Article II, Sec. 1, Cl. 2 by the Democrat Governor and Democrat Secretary of State.

It’s a good start, although I tend to doubt the Democratic House is going to be receptive. If I were the God-Emperor, I would not rely upon either the courts or the legislatures to do the right thing. This is a burden that falls to him, and to him alone. 

What those who are being threatened would do well to consider is this: if you are frightened of them when they are not ruling openly, imagine how much worse things it will be if they are permitted to do so. And remember Matthew 10:28.

Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell.

 It’s a bold move, Cotton. Wonder how that’s going to work out for them?

The Fulton County Board of Elections just recertified its results in the presidential election after the recount despite the CCTV video footage that was presented at the hearing in front of the Georgia state legislature yesterday.

At this point, they’re just openly daring the God-Emperor to cross the Rubicon. And frankly, given the size and scope of the corruption, I think that’s the optimal option now.

To quote the great man himself, “what is the Supreme Court?”

Pretty soon we should learn if the Supreme Court will decide if it wants to decide the presidential election or not:

An effort to overturn the presidential election results in Pennsylvania made its way to the Supreme Court Tuesday. Republican Rep. Mike Kelly, R-Pa., and others, including Sean Parnell, contend state officials had no right under the Pennsylvania Constitution to expand mail-in voting in 2019, and the state Supreme Court was wrong to uphold that statute. The group called it “an unconstitutional, no-excuse absentee voting scheme.”

“Pennsylvania’s General Assembly exceeded its powers by unconstitutionally allowing no-excuse absentee voting, including for federal offices, in the election,” the challengers argued in court papers. As a result, the election was “conducted illegally.”

The group seeks an emergency injunction from the nation’s highest court to block the completion of any remaining steps in the state’s certification of Pennsylvania’s 2020 election results, which took place last week. The petition was submitted to Associate Justice Samuel Alito. The court will now decide whether to take the case.

Don’t get too worked up over this one way or the other. The Supreme Court is merely the backup plan in the likely event that the state officials don’t heed the President’s warnings and do the right thing. And there is a backup to the backup plan that may, in fact, be the primary plan given the way in which so many have repeatedly chosen to ignore the warnings they have been given.

UPDATE: Speaking of the backup to the backup plan:

A week after receiving his pardon from President Donald Trump, former White House national security adviser Michael Flynn promoted a call for the president to “temporarily suspend the Constitution” and put the country under martial law.

 Because they’re desperately trying to destroy all of it. If, at this point, you still don’t understand that #bidenlost, you’re simply not paying attention.

 Eric Trump highlights the statistical improbabilities of the fraudulent 2020 election:

Biden lost 212 more counties than Obama did in 2012 (Biden won 477 counties vs Obama who won 689), yet Biden magically gained 13 million more votes than Obama… please.

As I’ve pointed out, in Hennepin County, Minnesota, Biden supposedly got 25 percent more votes than the average received by Obama-Obama-Clinton, while Trump simultaneously got 13 percent more than the average of McCain-Romney-Trump. The math simply doesn’t add up.

What this amounts to is a giant experiment, an Orwellian Assessment, in determining whether the media has obtained sufficient influence over the public to permit the presentation of a false perception to create reality.

 At this point, there is enough gunsmoke for President Trump to declare martial law.

“Watch a Dominion Representative at Gwinnett County Election Central, responsible for tabulating ballots and certifying results, download data to a USB from the Election Management Server, plug it into a laptop, manipulate the data, then palm the USB.

Not convinced he is a Dominion Representative?

Lets take a close look at his badge.“

This wasn’t the only place that happened either. At this point, I would guess that the amount of fraudulent/missing ballots confirmed is probably going to be in the 15-25 million range, or around 15 percent of the total ballots cast. The 2020 Trumpslide force them to double and triple down on their planned fraud at the last minute.