Friday, February 26, 2021

U.S. Supreme Court: No profile in courage!

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to deal with the allegations of compromised election integrity regarding the November 3rd presidential elections! I did not have time yet to read the entire decision (including the dissent by Justices Thomas and Alito), but it seems obvious, the Justices decided cowardly not to address this serious issue!

The flawed decision contains such weird main arguments as follows:
"... That decision to rewrite the rules seems to have affected too few ballots to change the outcome of any federal election. But that may not be the case in the future. ...
We are fortunate that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision to change the receipt deadline for mail-in ballots does not appear to have changed the outcome in any federal election. ...
After all, the 2020 election is now over, and the Pennsylvania Supreme Court’s decision was not outcome determinative for any federal election. ... "
What the heck! To argue from the outcome of the election backwards in this case is at best a lame excuse if not plain wrong! Not only that, since no major and comprehensive recount or audit of election results were conducted anywhere in the country where the results were contested, how do these Justices actually know?

" ... And none of the parties contend that those ballots made an outcome-determinative difference in any relevant federal election.  ..."
I don't think, the Justices are right on this point either! This seems dubious!

Let's have a quick look again at the Pennsylvania final election results (to my, perhaps mistaken knowledge, no major and comprehensive recount and/or audit was ever conducted in PA):
Biden: 3,458,229 votes Trump: 3,377,674 (that is a difference of only 80,555 votes)
Mail in votes for Biden: 1,995,691 Trump: 595,538 (we are supposed to believe that 3.3 times more Biden voters opted for mail in voting than Trump voters?)

Here is the link to the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision:
20-542 Republican Party of Pennsylvania v. Degraffenreid (02/22/2021)

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