Trump Lost Because SCOTUS Answers to the Constitution, Not to Him
Trump’s judicial humiliation is now complete.
Trump’s judicial humiliation is now complete.
With Friday's ruling from the Supreme Court, the result of this year's presidential election is clear. Joe Biden won. It is over.
The Court made the right decision and demonstrated its independence. But it may not still claims that the election was somehow stolen from Trump.
The Supreme Court, 7-2, voted to deny Texas AG Paxton's motion for leave to file its election complaint. Justices Alito and Thomas would grant Motion for Leave, but provide no other relief.
It might just be political posturing at this point, but the GOP is going down a dangerous path
If you thought the briefing in Texas v. Pennsylvania could not get worse, you are in for a surprise.
More than 100 members of Congress signed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the presidential election, including several prominent members of the group founded to protect "the rule of law."
Some Trump supporters find it easier to believe that every major American institution is potentially corrupt than to think that a president with a history of telling whoppers is being dishonest again.
The four defendant states in Texas v. Pennsylvania file their briefs in opposition.
Seeking to join a last-ditch effort to overturn Joe Biden's victory, the president's attorney says "it is not necessary...to prove that fraud occurred."
17 states submitted a brief supporting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's effort to prevent the selection of electors in four states, but only 6 joined today's motion to intervene. [Update: Meanwhile, Ohio files a brief that's worth reading.]
To move back in a libertarian direction, the Republican Party will have to do more than jettison Trump. But as long as it remains in Trump's thrall, that reversal is all but impossible.
The Constitution “plainly makes the appointment of electors a state-by-state matter.”
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Donald Trump, 17 State Attorneys General, and a bunch of Republican former office holders submit briefs to the Supreme Court.
The escaped slave called the Constitution "a glorious liberty document" that justified extending equality to blacks and women.
The case is within the Court' original jurisdiction. But longstanding precedent still allows the Court to dismiss it without full consideration.
The president and his allies keep losing election cases.
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The justices declined to intervene on behalf of Republicans who challenged absentee voting in Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania's response to Rep. Kelly's effort to invalidate Pennsylvania's election results.
Embattled Attorney General Ken Paxton is the latest to ask the Supreme Court to intervene in the 2020 Presidential election results.
According to the ruling, the former Trump attorney also filed the wrong claims in the wrong court at the wrong time on behalf of the wrong plaintiffs.
"Don't listen to my friends," the president says, referring to supporters who took his fraud allegations seriously.
States where recreational use has been legalized now include about a third of the U.S. population.
Some of the changes are reasonable. But many of the new questions are badly designed and incorporate serious errors. Moreover, such tests raise the deeper issue of why immigrants are required to pass a test to get the right to vote, but natives are not.
Trump could have reined in his Twitter attacks, surrounded himself with truth-tellers rather than sycophants, and reached out to other voters. He didn't. That's why he lost.
"This is about restoring faith and confidence in American elections," the president says.
Fans of limited government have a lot to be happy about. It's much harder to go big when you are constantly at risk of being told to go home.
Circumstances change and the world may grow more complicated, but authoritarians never vary from their demand for more power over our lives.
The former Trump attorney's election fraud lawsuits feature the same sort of dubious evidence that has failed to impress courts across the country.
Either the AG is acknowledging reality, or he's joined the anti-Trump deep state conspiracy.
With no name recognition, no money, and no media, the Jorgensen campaign helped cement the L.P.'s decadelong transformation into the third party in the United States.
Which leaves the U.S. without a major party even slightly inclined to leave people alone to manage their own affairs.
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Fox News interviewer Maria Bartiromo uncritically accepts Trump's outlandish conspiracy theory.
"The Campaign cannot win this lawsuit," the 3rd Circuit says. "The Campaign's claims have no merit."
We're expected to suffer discomfort, economic pain, and emotional distress or else pay fines or serve jail time. Government officials, meanwhile, take offense when called out for violating the standards they created.
Judge Stephanos Bibas, on behalf of unanimous panel, finds the Trump campaigns arguments have "no merit."
There’s no journalist more relentlessly iconoclastic than Greenwald, who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on the Snowden revelations.
Unfortunately, I'd guess the party did just well enough in the last election to punt those discussions to another day.
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Aaron Van Langevelde, Brad Raffensperger, and other state and local officials did the right thing and steered America away from the precipice.
At least nine GOP senators are publicly urging the president to concede or questioning his claim that he actually won.
Donald Trump continues to refuse to concede.
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