The most controversial Supreme Court case since Bush v. Gore will decide who is president for the next 4 years
The mainstream media and many on the left are greatly underestimating the importance of the election case that was put on the Supreme Court docket this week, and that is a tragic mistake on their part. Just like Bush v. Gore in 2000, Texas v. Pennsylvania will be “outcome determinative”. In other words, the Supreme Court is about to decide whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden will be president for the next four years. Very late on Monday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton filed a suit that alleged that voting procedures in the states of Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin violated the U.S. Constitution. This is how Paxton’s bill of complaint began…
“Our Country stands at an important crossroads. Either the Constitution matters and must be followed, even when some officials consider it inconvenient or out of date, or it is simply a piece of parchment on display at the National Archives. We ask the Court to choose the former.”
I completely agree with Paxton’s assessment.
Either we have a Constitution or we don’t, and if the Supreme Court chooses to ignore the plain meaning of the Constitution in this case we will cross a line that will never be able to be uncrossed.
The Supreme Court could have taken one look at Paxton’s suit and thrown it out, but that didn’t happen.
Instead, the case was officially put on the docket about 12 hours later.
There has been a lot of confusion about what this means, and so let me try to clear that up. According to the official website of the federal court system, a case is placed on the docket once the Court officially decides to accept a case…
If the Justices decide to accept a case (grant a petition for certiorari), the case is placed on the docket. According to the Supreme Court’s rules, the petitioner has a certain amount of time to write a brief, not to exceed 50 pages, putting forth his/her legal case concerning the issue on which the Court granted review. After the petitioner’s brief has been filed, the other party, known as the respondent, is given a certain amount of time to file a respondent’s brief. This brief is also not to exceed 50 pages.
In this case, there was no petition for certiorari because the Supreme Court has original jurisdiction over controversies between states.
Many on the left are still trying to argue that the Court will never actually consider Paxton’s arguments, but the case has already been accepted and Georgia, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have been ordered to file their responses by 3 PM eastern time on Thursday.
If the Supreme Court sides with Trump and his allies in Texas v. Pennsylvania, what happens next?
