Nine will decide
By the end of the week the SCOTUS could find itself having to quickly decide multiple election questions from PA, North Carolina, Mississippi and Nevada. Lawsuits brought by both parties. The election of 2020 was marked by democrat attorney Marc Elias getting state election laws altered via judge shopping. Thus far the Supreme Court has tried to stay out of the election. The Court also has a policy of trying to avoid changing election rules too close to an election. The Court has shown far more integrity when it comes to avoiding election interference, yet there are cases that couldn't have been resolved sooner or where lower-court rulings could have dramatic consequences.
The leading case involves the DOJ suing the state of Virginia which simply wants to keep illegal migrants from voting. The DOJ has cited the terrible National Voter Registration Act. A provision of that law, known as the Quiet Period Provision, requires states to complete programs that systematically remove ineligible voters from registration lists by 90 days before the election. The Act passed in 1993 makes voting easily manipulated by fraud. Both Alabama and Virginia are involved, and 26 state AGs have now come forward to support Virginia in the appeal.
A Mississippi law passed in 2020, election officials count mail ballots that are received up to five business days after Election Day, so long as they are postmarked on or before Election Day. The Mississippi Republican Party, the Republican National Committee, and two Mississippi voters sued the state and county election officials in January, arguing this practice violates a federal law establishing a uniform, nationwide Election Day by extending the election into the following week. the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit struck down the Mississippi law this past Friday.
The Pennsylvania Republican Party and the Republican National Committee sued all 67 county boards of elections and the secretary of state to challenge Pennsylvania's notice-and-cure policy, under which voters who cast ballots by mail are notified about and given a chance to fix technical errors with their ballots. The democrat party is fighting back tooth & nail.
In Michigan Republicans claimed the state does not have accurate voter rolls and argued that failing to comply with voter-list maintenance obligations required by federal law threatened to undermine the integrity of the election by increasing the chance for allegedly ineligible voters to cast ballots.
With District Courts leaning in different directions on all of these issues, the SCOTUS may have to take up cases.
In the news:
Ukraine is bracing for North Korean troops fighting alongside Russian forces. Thousands of North Korean soldiers are now in Russia’s west. Volodymyr Zelensky has been pushing Western leaders to support a plan that he says could end the war next year.
The Israeli Parliament passed laws that could limit some of the work of the UN's UNRWA, the main U.N. agency that aids Palestinians, as questions have begun to arise about what it is involved in.
Steve Bannon, the strategist who helped elect Trump in 2016, was released from prison this morning. He was one of the very few people to ever be prosecuted for ignoring a congressional subpoena. “I’m not broken, I’m empowered,” he said.
In Brazil, criminals are increasingly using chemicals rather than saws for deforestation. More than a third of the world’s trees are at risk of extinction certain scientists claim.
The Trump campaign denounced a warmup-comedian's offensive jokes in record time the other day. Many Republicans also denounced the remarks.
CBS still refuses to release the full text of the 60 Minutes interview of Kamala Harris.
Good morning
The Nevada Supreme Court ruled that ballots arriving 3 days after the Election will be counted.
That ruling may also be challenged.
how does this change the end result?
In a razor thin race?
It may.
In a blowout?
It only establishes some clear election rules for the future.
Now the democrats will know how many ballots to create after Election Day.
I think you need to loosen your tinfoil hat.
When people watch leads disappear when such things are allowed, who can blame them from questioning the election.
i can
Any predictions?
Trump will lose
Nevada election Statute requires a post mark.
Nevada Supreme Court: That means no postmark required.
Whatever makes it easier to cheat.
We’re talking about a minuscule number of ballots inadvertently missing their postmark. In your opinion it’s more important to strip voting rights from a handful of innocent people than to assume the obvious and count the votes that will have a negligible impact on the outcome.
The ruling noted that plaintiffs identified just 24 ballots among more than 383,000 cast statewide in the June primaries in Nevada as having no postmark, and attributed postmark errors to "random postal service omissions.” Two-thirds of ballots cast in Nevada primaries arrived by mail, according to Secretary of State records .
Following elections laws is election integrity. If judges can just ignore democratically passed laws on a whim, you have no rules.
If the number of votes is meaningless, why set the precedent that running roughshod over the rule of law is fine and dandy?
In the cited example, the percentage of ballots missing a postmark was 0.006266%. In addition to being much ado about nothing, the money spent on litigating it unfathomably wasteful. The micron of juice is not worth the squeeze.
People with more than half a brain who know that it's perfectly legal to vote by mail and many of those ballots that are sent in and date stamped on time get counted after election day. There is nothing sinister or illegal or fraudulent and most rational persons know this, only irrational conspiracy theorists create fiction and bullshit narratives to explain things their tiny, uninformed or deluded brains can't grasp.
People with more than half a brain know this is about shaving a point or two off of razor close districts. The advent of mail in voting is a Republican idea. It only became bad when Trump lost that demographic. MAGA is so bad now that the FBI is investigating multiple drop box arson fires.
As we see and learn and know over the years - the only way they can win is by cheating and lying or drop box arson fires.
I don't care if they count them a month after the election, as long as they are postmarked by the election, A person's vote shouldn't be dismissed because of the USPS inability to deliver mail in a timely manner.
Not if Trump wins Nevada.
How about adding to the "In the News" the burning of the ballot drop boxes in Oregon and Washington? Could it be because it is well known that those who use them the most are Democrats and those who prefer to vote at polling stations are Republicans?
Remember to wait for the facts to come in.
BTW the FBI is on it!
I forgot to add STEALING ballot boxes to the dirty tricks that are so obviously DESPERATE crimes to support a convicted criminal.
MSNBC used Nazi rally clips during its coverage of former President Donald Trump’s historic campaign event at Madison Square Garden in a desperate last-ditch bid to frighten voters into supporting the floundering Democratic ticket.
The left-wing network weaved archival footage from the 1939 Nazi rally into the broadcast of Trump’s Sunday rally, which saw the iconic New York City venue packed to the rafters with jubilant supporters.
“That jamboree happening right now, in that place, is particularly chilling, because in 1939, more than 20,000 supporters of a different fascist leader – Adolf Hitler – packed the Garden for a so-called ‘pro-America rally,’” Washington Post columnist, MSNBC contributor and avowed Trump hater Jonathan Capehart said breathlessly while rolling the footage.
Tesla founder Elon Musk, who spoke at the rally, also blasted MSNBC — the No. 2 cable news network — as the “scum of the Earth” on X, and some critics even went so far as to accuse the network of “ incitement .”
'Shameful' MSNBC blasted for splicing Nazi rally clips into coverage of Trump's MSG rally
good thing Trump would never incitement anyone
No excuses!
When has he done that?
According to some on the left every time he exhales, or inhales. S/
The media has completely folded to Trump. Back in the day if a campaign event had unleashed the torrent of hate we saw in New York the other day , the media would have been calling far and wide for that candidate to end his campaign. Imagine if this travesty happened at a Nixon campaign event, he would have been on tv an hour later begging for voters to still consider him. In our current cesspool the VP candidate Vance wants to know "whats the big deal?"
To say we have debased the campaigning process, or more specifically Trump has debased the campaigning process is a vast understatement.
How dare anyone say the media is being unfair to Trump ? They are keeping him afloat by normalizing all this shit.
Is this what the end of the road looks like for the democrats?
After the Russia hoax, which was concocted by the Clinton campaign, two faux investigations, two faux impeachments, blatant lies & smears, lawfare and the rhetoric which led to two assassination attempts all the Harris campaign has is "he's Hitler."
The dems are trying to normalize this behavior. Do anything to win.
Unfortunately, its mission accomplished!
Russia hoax, where Trump people were charged and the bkipartisan congressional report found his campaign WAS in close contact with Russia, just didn't have enough evidence to bring against Trump, that hoax ?
What faux investigations ?
What "fake" impeachments ? The Republicans were a bunch of pussies, Trump grabbed them !
Example blatant lies and smears: ?
Lawfare my asz! Following obvious ridiculous amount of evidence !
And "rhetoric"led to assasination attempts ? From th "right' ?
And if he doesn't like the Hitler comparison, why did he bringon Vance as VP running mate, coffee wasn't available >?
Policy coverage gets subordinated to the polls and what ever disturbing shit Trump said the day before.
Of course the lousy reporting began with keeping the voters in the dark about Biden's condition until it was almost to late for an alternative.
Really? is that when it began ?
All disprovable nonsense.
Coverage from Woodwords book, Hair on fire trump sent Covid tests to Russia, Not a peep about the fact that 16 months before he dropped out donors were talking about Bidens inability to hold a thought or conversation. that is the true smoking gun. they knew and hid it.
The facts didnt change after Jan 6 2021, the Republican Party did. All those who flat out condemned Trump on Jan 7 came around shortly thereafter to the point where they now bow and scrape before him.
Donrt get me started on the rank and file. I said on Newstalkers at this time 8 years ago that eventually Trump supporters would be a much bigger problem in this country than Trump himself. That was when they were uproaring about how horrible it was for Hillary Clinton to call half of Trump supporters "deplorable". The only thing she got wrong was the percentage but I doubt she missed by much.
No, the media has not folded to Trump. But, after eight years, there's no way to make new revelations more exciting than the last one. Even Democrats' exploding heads have become derivative. Democrats need a new drug.
Kamala Harris is on the stump repeating the news. Harris ain't revealing insider info or saying anything new. After eight years of the same drumbeat, Democrats think more of the same will change people's minds?
So disprove please
I understand that she is going to spend the majority of her speech today talking about Trump. Very little, if any, of talk about what she s going to do to improve the country that her and Biden have tried for 4 years to destroy.....mainly because she knows she wants to continue the destruction. And voters know it.
If you watch MSNBC they stop just short of using pom poms to try and promote Harris.
Nuh uh really doesn't disprove anything
They will just rehash the old ones as bombshells.
Her whole platform has been "Orange man bad". I am surprised she hasn't had bumper stickers made.
You really want people to believe that this is all you understand of her message? That you have filtered out everything else?
Kamala (continued) : "And he and his supporters are nazis.... That's all I have"
How pathetic. Instead of going with what she actually said, you make up nonsense and attribute it to Harris.
see @2.2.20
Pathetic.
But she was brought up in a middle class neighborhood.
Don't forget her neighbors had great lawns.
Yes because calling Trump a fascist and a threat to democracy is so much better
Actually orange man bad encompasses all the hyperbole and exaggerated shit she (and some others) have been saying about him.
Trump's longest standing chief of staff, ★★★★ General Mark Kelly, stated that he believes Trump is a fascist (and definitely an authoritarian).
This is not some partisan talking head gratuitously and recklessly tossing about derogatory labels. This is a serious individual who worked closely with Trump in office — someone who steers clear of making public political statements — doing something very unusual because (I suspect) he believes it is his duty to inform the electorate before we vote.
Stating an assessment based on strong, direct evidence is quite different from mere name-calling.
But, of course, you deliver a big nuh-uh and dismiss all criticism of Trump as nothing but bullshit.
Until he got fired.
Never said all. Why make stuff up?
Of course, the irrational Trump defense yet again.
You think General Kelly, a distinguished ★★★★ Marine Corp General with a long career of dignity and patriotic service is going to just make shit up because his feelings were hurt.
Correct, I said all. That was my assessment of your net comments. And you running to yet again defend Trump in this case is fine evidence that my assessment is spot on.
The obligatory snark
Maybe, maybe not. Anyone that can look at it objectively would be suspicious of the possibility.
That is OK, it would be far from the first assessment you did not have right.
It is possible that Jill Stein will win the presidency. However, those who objectively consider ALL the relevant facts would conclude that this possibility is so remote as to be deemed false.
Same here with General Kelly. Just think about what you are proposing: you are putting the credibility/integrity/honesty of Trump against that of General Kelly.
And you think that is objective reasoning.
No it is not. Is is false equivalency though.
Of course, nuh-uh in lieu of an actual argument.
A false equivalency requires no argument. Your attempt to divert from the truth is noted though
Offer something better than bullshit platitudes.
And 'mean tweets' and 'hurt feelings'
Hillary was right about everything which is why the 'right' hates her.
Offer something other than bullshit false equivalency.
Notice how you can't find anything about the Clintons / Democrats having a similar rally in the same venue receiving the same treatment? I wonder why.
I think MSNBC should be sued into oblivion.
Well Trumps your man then.
Maybe because they didnt have a hate rally? Ever think of that?
Besides the idiot comic, point out EXACTLY what was considered hate.
Only factual comments with quotes are accepted.
And neither did this rally. But don't let that get in the way of the hypocrisy and throwing a tantrum over nothing. Again.
Another group of mindless bloggers will step up with the fictional nonsense.
But it would be fun to watch them go batshit crazy over it.
First of all, listen to the analysis from these two Republicans (who now identify as former Republicans) against Trump.
Then we have this reporting (one of many):
Do you not recognize the remarkable change of message / tone / philosophy in the Trump-infected GOP compared to the GOP of Reagan (and before)?
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You think these things are poutrage bad, but you have never spoke negatively about Harris and her lemmings constant drum beat of Trump AND his supporters are nazis and are the same as Hitler.
I acknowledged the comic and the shitty joke he made about Puerto Ricans. He is an insult comic and the other jokes were expected. I don't know if you are old enough to remember but back in the 70s there was an insult comic named Don Rickles. His jokes were very similar in taste, and I am sure that if you are old enough, you laughed at them....like 90 percent of the country did. Get over it.
The rest of the jokes were actually funny, especially never going to a nazi gig one. Very few paople argue that Harris is not a bitch, so, meh.
BTW...Bill Kristol is a loser never Trumper who covered up pedophilia within the Lincoln Project organization. Not exactly a source I would lean on to prove a point.
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The predictable 'nuh-uh' response.
I am not a D. But I am supporting the Ds in 2024 given that IMO the GOP has turned into a Trump cult.
bizarre comment
What did you not understand?
The democratic party of yesterday is no different than the democratic party of today.
How so?
Do you condemn your party for calling Trump supporters nazi's?
I saw it. The problem is the comment doesnt know what it is talking about.
Your comment history shows very differently
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I do not have a political party.
Provide a link to an official statement from the Ds calling Trump supporters Nazis.
Bullshit. You know damn well that I was favoring Chris Sununu and that I supported and contributed financially to the campaign of Nikki Haley. When she dropped out and left us with Trump, my position turned to using my vote in the most effective way to prevent Trump from becoming PotUS.
When Biden dropped out, I switched from strictly anti-Trump to support for the Harris-Walz ticket.
I have seen repeatedly that partisans cannot believe that anyone is non-partisan. Thus we see crap like the mere support for a D makes you a D.
A fine test for blind partisanship nowadays is an intention to vote for Trump given he is by far the worst, most unfit nominee for PotUS in our lifetimes and likely in our nation's history.
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Maybe you have not been paying attention, but Ds here and the left wing media have been incessantly saying there is a distinct parallel between Trump's MSG rally and the NAZI rally of 1939.
That is the same as calling Trump supporters nazis
Will you condemn this rhetoric?
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Making that comparison is not the Ds calling the GOP members Nazis. It was a comparison of the rhetoric. I will not even ask if you see the similarity between the nationalist, racist rhetoric of Trump, et. al. and that of Hitler since I expect you to deny it even if you actually do recognize it.
There is a difference between pointing out similarity in rhetoric and calling individuals Nazis. You should know this.
It was labeled a hate rally before the rally ever took place. Have to keep the Nazi narrative going when there is nothing else.
"Vote for Harris or be a Nazi!" S/
Deflection and not answering the question.
Do you condemn democrats for making comparisons between Trump supporters and nazis?
They seem to forget their god and goddess Bill and Hillary both held rallies at MSG. Same with FDR and JFK
They don't see the irony in trying to compare rallies held there to nazi rallies.
For some reason I can't get anyone to condemn comparing Trump supporters to nazis.
Hmmmm
This may be your funniest comment yet.
That was not deflection, it clearly stated that your claim is bullshit.
The comparison was with the rhetoric, not the people.
If you want me to answer your question then deliver proof that that your claim is true.
Explain why.
Is it your position that anyone voting for Harris this year is necessarily a D?
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Are you really suggesting anyone that votes for Trump is doing so out of blind partisanship?
Feelings of some have been obvious for awhile.
Don't forget ignorant, racist, blind partisans, fascist, unpatriotic, goobers and any other name that comes to mind.
On second thought, I think a more accurate assessment is that a vote for Trump at this stage is a fine test for cultish behavior.
But in both cases, no test is 100% accurate so this is a predominant test, not an absolute test.
Well, at least we now know that NYC is a sanctuary for NAZIs.
This is how ridiculous the media and some on the left are getting.
The desperation is obvious.
They know Harris is losing.
I'm sure some of these outlets have access to insider polls and it is much worse than the polls that are being released to the public.
I think that anyone who can look at this election objectively would recognize that this is a toss-up that will be determined based on actual turnout.
To conclude that Trump or Harris is winning is emotional, not rational.
Then how do you explain the obvious desperation of the Harris camp to tell their followers to refer to Trump and his supporters as fascists and nazis?
They are obeying in lock step......pretty much like a cult.
Funny how I can't get anyone to condemn this rhetoric
That is all kinds of sad, but expected
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Well of course not; nobody will condemn something unless it actually happens. Show me where the Harris camp called Trump supporters fascists and Nazis.
Again, they compared the rhetoric, not the people.
Not all Trump supporters are fascists and Nazis, but pretty much all the fascists and Nazis in America are Trump supporters.
I've noted that there are many different forms of government, such as all of these....
Index of Forms of Government
But America appears to be unique, in that it seems to be governed by SupremeCourtacy.