Category Archives: Supreme Court

Trump Campaign Files Yet Another Quixotic Supreme Court Petition Seeking to Overturn Election Results from Wisconsin, Misspelling “Laches”

December 31, 2020, 7:13 amfraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Can’t make this stuff up: ⚖️NEW: For the second time in two days, Trump files a SCOTUS petition re: Biden's win in WISCONSIN. Trump campaign notes that the suit's dismissal in federal appeals court was not based on the… Continue reading

Pennsylvania, Opposing Trump Effort to Expedite Consideration of One of Its Bonkers Election Challenges, Calls Argument About Trump’s Delay “Profoundly Incoherent”

December 31, 2020, 7:11 amfraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The opposition also says this: The Trump Campaign threatens that “if this matter is not timely resolved, not only Petitioner, but the Nation as a whole may suffer injury from the resulting confusion.” Motion at 5. But it is the… Continue reading

Derek Muller Lays Out THE Conservative Case Against Texas’s Bizarre Suit to Steal the Election for Trump at the Supreme Court

December 21, 2020, 1:51 pmchicanery, Election Meltdown, electoral college, fraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Derek at Law & Liberty: The Electoral College is a designedly decentralized process for the selection of the President of the United States. Each State may choose its presidential electors in the manner that the legislature deems appropriate.The State of… Continue reading

Trump Campaign Files Ridiculous New Expedited Cert Petition, Seeking Supreme Court Order to Overturn PA Election Results, Relying on Fake Electors for Trump from PA as Reported by the Epoch Times

December 20, 2020, 12:03 pmchicanery, electoral college, fraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

John Eastman should be ashamed of this petition for cert and motion to expedite. I won’t go through all of the ridiculous things here, but this is an attempt to challenge PA Supreme Court cases in October and mid-November.… Continue reading

Breaking: Supreme Court, on 6-3 Vote, Ducks Census Ruling, Holding There is No Standing and Remanding for Further Proceedings; What It Means

December 18, 2020, 7:03 amcensus litigation, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

In an unsigned (per curiam) order over 3 dissents, the Supreme Court has bounced a case back to a lower court that challenged a Trump Administration plan to exclude certain non-citizens from the census count used to apportion seats among… Continue reading

“New Supreme Court filing includes blatantly wrong information about Michigan”

December 17, 2020, 6:37 amfraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Detroit Free Press: A long-shot legal effort relying on conspiracy theories and inaccurate analyses to argue President Donald Trump actually won Michigan included additional blatantly false information in a new filing with the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The… Continue reading

“The Supreme Court May Soon Rule on Donor Privacy”

December 15, 2020, 8:05 amcampaign finance, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

Philanthropy Roundtable: For those following donor-privacy issues, there was an important development in the case known as Americans for Prosperity Foundation v. Becerra in mid-December. The current status of this litigation is that the plaintiffs have petitioned the U.S. Supreme… Continue reading

“Texas v. Pennsylvania: What’s The Deal With That? And what to make of the mysterious separate ‘statement’ of Justices Alito and Thomas?”

December 15, 2020, 7:22 amSupreme CourtRick Hasen

David Lat blogs on the “sort of” question.

Michigan: “State, company officials dispute report claiming Antrim County tabulators bungled results”

December 14, 2020, 5:02 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Detroit Free Press: State officials are disputing a report on Antrim County’s voting equipment — signed by a consultant who confused Michigan and Minnesota voting districts in an earlier election analysis — that says the county’s equipment “is intentionally and… Continue reading

Breaking: Supreme Court Will Not Hear Kansas Case (Formerly Known as Fish v. Kobach) Striking Down Law Requiring Documentary Proof of Citizenship Before Registering to Vote

December 14, 2020, 6:34 amfraudulent fraud squad, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

This is great news. No noted, dissents, and Justice Gorsuch did not participate (perhaps he dealt with the case earlier on the 10th Circuit). In my book Election Meltdown, I talked about how the trial in the case was… Continue reading

“Liberals Were Right to Fear the Supreme Court’s Election Intervention”

December 13, 2020, 5:02 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Jay Willis in The Atlantic.

Ned Foley: “Is Texas v. Pennsylvania an obituary for Bush v. Gore?”

December 12, 2020, 4:12 pmBush v. Gore reflections, Supreme Court, The Voting WarsRick Hasen

The following is a guest post by Ned Foley, on the 20th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision in Bush v. Gore: On the evening before the twentieth anniversary of Bush v. Gore, one of the most infamous Supreme Court… Continue reading

“Deciphering, rewriting, and potentially retitling Justice Alito’s separate statement in Texas v. Pennsylvania”

December 12, 2020, 3:27 pmSupreme CourtRick Hasen

Howard Bashman: Thanks to everyone who has taken time to respond to my tweet from last night seeking views on whether yesterday evening’s U.S. Supreme Court order was unanimous in rejecting Texas’ effort to overturn the outcome of the 2020… Continue reading

Breaking: Supreme Court, Sort of Unanimously, Rejects Texas’s Case, Ending Ridiculous, But Also Dangerous, Litigation. What’s Next?

December 11, 2020, 3:53 pmElection Meltdown, Supreme CourtRick Hasen

The Supreme Court dismissed Texas’s bill of complaint in the latest high-profile case pushed by Trump allies in an attempt to overturn the results of the election. The Court did not issue an accompanying opinion. [Addendum: The court did say… Continue reading

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